DEVILS AND CANON BARHAM P - Couverture souple

Wilson, Edmund

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0374526699 ISBN 13 : 9780374526696

Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999

Synopsis

Edmund Wilson's last collection of criticism, The Devils & Canon Barham, contains ten essays on Poets, Novelists, and Monsters

Previously published in the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books, Wilson's writing featured in this volume sees the critic returning to his roots and youth, with essays on his childhood love for The Ingoldsby Legends, the works of Hemingway, Eliot's The Waste Land, and ends with a peice on The Monsters of Bomarzo and by taking the Modern Language Association (MLA) to task.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. His more than twenty books include Axel's Castle, Patriotic Gore, To the Finland Station, and Memoirs of Hecate County.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374526699
• ISBN 13: 9780374526696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
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