Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination - The Collected Essays of O.b.hardison, Jr.

Informationen zum Autor O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928-1990) was widely known and published as a poet, critic, scholar, administrator, and social and cultural observer. He served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America, and, perhaps most impressive of his many honors and accomplishments, as the third director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Klappentext Whether O.B. Hardison Jr. (1929-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's play, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. As Arthur F. Kinney notes in his preface, they all bear hallmarks of Hardison's style: his intensity and acuity of thought, his concreteness, his grounding of the present and future in the past, his easy melding of analytic and expository conventions, and his intercultural perspective. Zusammenfassung Whether O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928-1990) wrote about government’s responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design, his chosen form was the essay. These 25 selections showcase Hardison’s mastery of the essay’s power to instruct, persuade, and provoke.

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• Authors: O B Hardison, O. Hardison, O. B. Hardison, O.b. Hardison
• Assisted by: arthur Kinney (Editor), Arthur F Kinney (Editor), Arthur F. Kinney (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1996
• EAN: 9780820318196
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-1819-6
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Geotechnical Special Publicati; Geotechnical Special Publicati
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies