Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history,...
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a b...
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century American master has finally found an apt critical reader. In this first sustained critical study of Davenport, Furlani elucidates the depths of Davenport's fiction and its poetic precedents, brings a rare understanding to the author's reworking of twentieth-century literature and intellectual history,...
Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a b...
Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher s relevance to the Nobel laureate s work is scarcely acknowledged and seldom elucidated. "Beckett after Wittgenstein "is the first book to examine Beckett s formative encounters with, and profound affinities to, Wittgenstein s thought, style, and character.
While a number of influential critics, including the philosopher Alain Badiou, have discerned a transition in Beckett s work beginning in the late 1950s, Furlani is the first to identify and clarify how this change occurs in...
Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher s relevance to the Nobel laureate s wor...
Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher s relevance to the Nobel laureate s work is scarcely acknowledged and seldom elucidated. "Beckett after Wittgenstein "is the first book to examine Beckett s formative encounters with, and profound affinities to, Wittgenstein s thought, style, and character.
While a number of influential critics, including the philosopher Alain Badiou, have discerned a transition in Beckett s work beginning in the late 1950s, Furlani is the first to identify and clarify how this change occurs in...
Among the best-represented authors in Samuel Beckett s library was Ludwig Wittgenstein, yet the philosopher s relevance to the Nobel laureate s wor...
