Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts

Author(s)

    • Gass, William H.

Bibliographic Information

Life sentences : literary judgments and accounts

William H. Gass

Alfred A. Knopf, 2012

1st ed

Available at  / 1 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Contents of Works

  • The personals column: The literary miracle
  • Slices of life in a library
  • Spit in the mitt
  • The first fourth following 9/11
  • What freedom of expression means, especially in times like these
  • Retrospection
  • Old favorites and fresh enemies: A wreath for the grave of Gertrude Stein
  • Reading Proust
  • Nietzsche: in illness and in health
  • Kafka: half a man, half a metaphor
  • Unsteady as she goes: Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno
  • The bush of belief
  • Henry James's curriculum vitae
  • An introduction to John Gardner's Nickel mountain
  • Katherine Anne Porter's fictional self
  • Knut Hamsun
  • Kinds of killing
  • The Biggs lectures in the classics: Form: Eidos
  • Mimesis
  • Metaphor
  • Theoretics: Lust
  • Narrative sentences
  • The aesthetic structure of the sentence

Details

  • NCID
    BB24052112
  • ISBN
    • 9780307595843
  • LCCN
    2011033577
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    349 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
  • Subject Headings
Page Top