Writing into the world : essays : 1973-1987 / Terrence des Pres ; edited and with an introduction by Paul Mariani ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Des Pres, Terrence.

Contributor:

Mariani, Paul L.

Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (xviii, 294 pages) ; 23 cm

Edition:

[Unrevised and unpublished proofs].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : Viking, [1991]

Contents:

Writing into the world (1985)

Prophecies of grace and doom: the function of criticism in the present time (1975)

War crimes: a review of Marcel Ophuls's The Memory of Justice (1977)

The authority of silence in Elie Wiesel's art (1978)

Poetry and politics: the example of Nazim Hikmet (1978)

Introduction to Jean-François Steiner's Treblinka (1979)

The Bettelheim problem (1979)

Goodness incarnate: A review of Philip Hallie's Lest Innocent Blood of Shed (1979)

Against the under toad: the novels of John Irving (1980)

The dreaming back (1980)

Into the mire: the case of Bertolt Brecht (1981)

A history of death: a review of Philippe Ariès's The Hour of Our Death (1982)

Auden's truth (1982)

Terror and the sublime (1983)

Self/landscape/grid (1983)

Accident and its scene: reflections on the death of John Gardner (1983)

Orwell and the O'Brienists: an aside on criticism in the academy (1984)

Channel fire: Hardy and the limits of poetry (1985)

On governing narratives: the Turkish-Armenian case (1986)

Sisters to Antigone: a review of Wendy Wilder Larson and Tran Thi Nga's Shallow Groves: Two Women and Vietnam (1986)

Holocaust laughter (1987)

Memory of boyhood (1973).

Notes:

"A selection of twenty-two essays by the author of The Survivor."

"Pub. Date 1/91 Price $22.95. Unrevised and unpublished proofs. Confidential. Please do not quote for publication until verified with finished book. This copy is not for distribution to the public."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

ISBN:

06700804649

OCLC:

1334675411