More dynamite : essays 1990-212 / Craig Raine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raine, Craig, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English essays--20th century.

English essays.

English essays--21st century.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

550 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Atlantic Books, 2013.

Contents:

Part 1 Books - Reading the Fine Print

Isaac Babel (2002) 3

Derek Walcott's Poetry (2000) 12

Raymond Carver (2009) 22

Elizabeth Bishop (2008) 31

William Golding (2009) 42

William Golding's The Spire (2011) 54

Updike: Just Looking (1990) 60

Updike Tribute (2009) 67

Memory in Literature (2005) 73

Kipling and Racism (1999) 83

Just So Stories (2001) 104

Stoppard's Trilogy (2002) 106

Stoppard: A Speech (2004) 118

Life Studies (2003) 121

Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004) 136

Lowell's Letters (2005) 152

The Lowell-Bishop Letters (2008) 164

Double Exposures: Ted Hughes (2006) 167

Ted Hughes's Letters (2007) 182

A. E. Housman's Letters (2007) 190

Marianne Moore (2004) 193

V S. Naipaul (2001) 204

J. M. Coetzee (2007) 212

J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (2010) 215

Geoffrey Hill, Christopher Logue, Seamus Heaney (2005) 222

Kundera's Italics (2006) 232

Kundera's The Curtain (2007) 251

Christopher Logue (2007) 254

Counter-Intuitive Larkin (2008) 267

Rebecca Gilman: Dramatist (2004) 281

Joyce's Exiles (2006) 294

Harold Pinter Remembered (2009) 299

Short Bit about Beckett (2006) 306

Don Paterson (2007) 307

Kafka: The Trial (2001) 322

Laughter in the Dark: Nabokov (1998) 325

Paul Valéry's Notebooks (2000) 332

Auden's Early Poetry (2005) 338

Auden's Prose (2008) 345

Zbigniew Herbert (2008) 348

Not about Heroes (2006) 351

Opera as a Flawed Form (2004) 353

Influences (2004) 357

Poetry and Language (2004) 358

Short Introduction to T. S. Eliot (2008) 364

The Laureate (2005) 366

Consider the Hipster: How Good is David Foster Wallace? (2011) 370

Eliot's Inferno: The Letters (2009) 384

Bryan Forbes (2010) 392

Alan Bennett: The Angst in the Axminster (2009) 400

Salinger: A Perfect Day for Bananafish' (2010) 409

Sex: Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Eagleton (2010) 415

Part 2 Art - Reading the Detail

Seurat's Courage (1997) 421

Old Friends in Venice (1995) 427

Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen (1999) 435

Masterpieces: Things in Particular (1997) 441

Frank Gehry (1998) 447

Ron Mueck (2000) 453

Mueck at Kanazawa (2008) 458

Mueck: Invitation au Voyage (2009) 464

Modigliani (2006) 467

Adam Elshefmer (2006) 472

Klimt (2008) 476

Richard van den Dool (2005) 482

Jeff Koons (2009) 494

Rodchenko (2008) 498

Sickert in Venice (2009) 503

Vorticists (2011) 508

Gerhard Richter (2011) 512

Hockney at the Royal Academy (2012) 517

Damien Hirst Retrospective (2012) 522.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1848872879

9781848872875

OCLC:

859185698

Publisher Number:

99957586046