The Story About the Story

Informationen zum Autor In addition to editing "The Story About the Story," J.C. Hallman is the author of several books, including "The Chess Artist," "In Utopia," "Wm & H'ry," and "B & Me: A True Story of Literary Arousal." The list of contributors includes: 1) Wendy Lesser on Cervantes2) Philip Lopate on Stendhal3) John Berryman on Anne Frank4) David Shields on Bill Murray5) Zadie Smith on Hurston F6) Charles Baxter on Chekhov7) Thomas Mann on Tolstoy8) Jane Tompkins on L Amour9) Joyce Carol Oates on Mary Shelley10) Martin Amis on Larkin11) Margaret Atwood on Wells12) Michael Dirda on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 13) Walter Benjamin on Leskov14) Nicholson Baker on Defoe15) James Thurber on James16) Elizabeth Hardwick on Melville17) David Foster Wallace on Updike18) Jacque Barzun on Abraham Lincoln19) Vivian Gornick on Paley20) H.L. Mencken on Dreiser21) Susan Cheever on Alcott22) Ralph Ellison on Crane23) Joseph Conrad on Crane24) Francisco Goldman on Bolano25) Katherine Anne Porter on Cather26) Harold Bloom on Hans Christian Andersen" Klappentext The essays in The Story About the Story Vol. II chart a trajectory that digs deep into the past and aims toward a future in which literature can play a new and more profound role in how we think, read, live, and write.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Atwood, David Foster Wallace, David/ Smith Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, David Foster Wallace
• Assisted by: J C Hallman (Editor), J. C. Hallman (Editor)
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 15.10.2013, delayed
• EAN: 9781935639688
• ISBN: 978-1-935639-68-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies