Experts Are Puzzled - Couverture souple

Riding, Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1937027864 ISBN 13 : 9781937027865

Editeur : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018

Synopsis

A nearly impossible text to categorizeis it a collection of short stories, prose poems, manifestos or something else entirely?Experts Are Puzzled is one of Laura Riding's earliest and most intense examinations of poetry's and language's relationship to truth. In essayistic examinations such as the titular piece, ""Introduction to a Book on Money,"" and ""An Address to America,"" Riding seeks to articulate a higher, more poetic notion of truth and truth telling. As such, Experts Are Puzzled stands as an essential text for understanding why Riding came to reject poetry in the late 1930s. While excerpts and selections from Experts have been published before, most notably in Riding's The Progress of Stories, the entirety of the collection has not appeared in print since its initial publication by Jonathan Cape in 1930.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Laura Riding was a poet, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, and publisher. While primarily known for the critical works that she co-authored with Robert GravesA Pamphlet Against Anthologies and A Survey of Modernist PoetryRiding also left behind an incredibly powerful body of poetry and prose works that, regrettably, remain little read today. These include The Close Chaplet, The Lives of Wives, and The Progress of Stories. Famously rejecting poetry early in her career, she spent the last decades of her life co-writing a theoretical work on linguistics, Rational Meaning, with her husband Schuyler Jackson. She was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1991, the very same year she died.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ugly Duckling Presse
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1937027864
• ISBN 13: 9781937027865
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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