Life Sentences - Literary Judgments and Accounts

Informationen zum Autor William Gass (1924 - 2017) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, critic, and philosophy professor. The author of four novels and five books of essays, he was the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller, Lannan, and Guggenheim foundations, and received two National Book Critics Circle awards for Criticism. Klappentext "Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2011." Zusammenfassung A dazzling collection of essays--on reading, writing, form, and thought--from one of America's master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gass's lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and Proust). An essential addition to the Gassian canon, Life Sentences shows William H. Gass at his best.

Product details

• Authors: William Gass, William H Gass, Gass William, William Gass
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2015
• EAN: 9781564789174
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-917-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 28 mm
• Series: Scholarly; Scholarly; Dalkey Archive Scholarly
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Amerika, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Bezug zu Schwulen, Lesben und Bisexuellen, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans)