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Tradition, the Writer and Society
Author | : Wilson Harris |
Publisher | : London : New Beacon |
Total Pages | : 75 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Caribbean fiction (English) |
ISBN | : 9780901241153 |
Notes on the Death of Culture
Author | : Mario Vargas Llosa |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-08-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0374710317 |
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A provocative essay collection that finds the Nobel laureate taking on the decline of intellectual life In the past, culture was a kind of vital consciousness that constantly rejuvenated and revivified everyday reality. Now it is largely a mechanism of distraction and entertainment. Notes on the Death of Culture is an examination and indictment of this transformation—penned by none other than Mario Vargas Llosa, who is not only one of our finest novelists but one of the keenest social critics at work today. Taking his cues from T. S. Eliot—whose essay "Notes Toward a Definition of Culture" is a touchstone precisely because the culture Eliot aimed to describe has since vanished—Vargas Llosa traces a decline whose ill effects have only just begun to be felt. He mourns, in particular, the figure of the intellectual: for most of the twentieth century, men and women of letters drove political, aesthetic, and moral conversations; today they have all but disappeared from public debate. But Vargas Llosa stubbornly refuses to fade into the background. He is not content to merely sign a petition; he will not bite his tongue. A necessary gadfly, the Nobel laureate Vargas Llosa, here vividly translated by John King, provides a tough but essential critique of our time and culture.
Writing Selves, Writing Societies
Author | : Charles Bazerman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Written communication |
ISBN | : |
Tradition
Author | : Edward Shils |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226753263 |
Explores the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. This book reveals the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship.
Is Nothing Sacred?
Author | : Salman Rushdie |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
"What is Literature?" and Other Essays
Author | : Jean-Paul Sartre |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780674950849 |
What is Literature? challenges anyone who writes as if literature could be extricated from history or society. But Sartre does more than indict. He offers a definitive statement about the phenomenology of reading, and he goes on to provide a dashing example of how to write a history of literature that takes ideology and institutions into account.
The Sacred Wood
Author | : Thomas Stearns Eliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Criticism |
ISBN | : |
American Widow
Author | : Alissa R. Torres |
Publisher | : Villard Books |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 0345500695 |
Presents, in graphic novel format, the story of Alissa Torres, whose husband was killed in the September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and her legal and psychological battles over his death.