9781945492426: Lecture
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ISBN 10 : 1945492422 ISBN 13 : 9781945492426
Editeur : Transit Books, 2020

Synopsis

'(Cappello's) excellent new book-length essay, Lecture... at once defends the lecture and calls for holistic and creative improvements to the form.' - The Atlantic. In twenty-first century America, there is so much that holds or demands our attention without requiring it. Imagine the lecture as a radical opening. Mary Cappello's Lecture is a song for the forgotten art of the lecture. Brimming with energy and erudition, it is an attempt to restore the lecture's capacity to wander, question, and excite. Cappello draws on examples from Virginia Woolf to Mary Ruefle, Ralph Waldo Emerson to James Baldwin, blending rigorous cultural criticism with personal history to explore the lecture in its many forms - from the aphorism to the note - and give new life to knowledge's dramatic form.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mary Cappello's six books of literary nonfiction include a detour on awkwardness; a breast-cancer anti-chronicle; a lyric biography; and the mood fantasia, Life Breaks In. A former Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, she is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.

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Éditeur
Transit Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1945492422
ISBN 13 
9781945492426
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
136
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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