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The best American essays 1992 / edited and with an introduction by Susan Sontag ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
LIBRA PS681 .B47 1992
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American essays--20th century.
- American essays.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 331 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
- Summary:
- Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1991 which were originally published in American periodicals. Includes essays by Joan Didion, E. L. Doctorow, Ronald Dworkin, Stanley Elkin, William H. Gass, Elizabeth Hardwick, John Updike, and Gore Vidal.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Robert Atwan
- Introduction / Susan Sontag
- Short talks / Anne Carson
- Sentimental journeys / Joan Didion
- Standards / E.L. Doctorow
- Liberty and pornography / Ronald Dworkin
- Some overrated masterpieces / Stanley Elkin
- Thinking about killing : Hamlet and the paths among the passions / Philip Fisher
- Exile / William H. Gass
- Audubon's passion / Adam Gopnik
- Canon, syllabus, list : a note on the pedagogic imaginary / John Guillory
- Wind from the prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick
- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne
- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid
- Opera and homosexuality : seven arias / Wayne Koestenbaum
- The zipper / Leonard Michaels
- Victims, all? / David Rieff
- Look away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace
- Needs / George W.S. Trow
- First things first / John Updike
- The mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike
- Lincoln up close / Gore Vidal
- Biographical notes
- Notable essays of 1991.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 0395599350
- 9780395599358
- 9780395599365
- 0395599369
- OCLC:
- 26980035
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