The wound and the bow : seven studies in literature / by Edmund Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, 1997.Description: xvii, 242 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0821411896 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93353 21
LOC classification:
  • PN56.S742 W55 1997
Contents:
Dickens: The Two Scrooges -- The Kipling that Nobody Read -- Uncomfortable Casanova -- Justice to Edith Wharton -- Hemingway: Gauge of Morale -- The Dream of H. C. Earwicker -- Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow.
Summary: The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson (1885-1972). This welcome re-issue - one of several for this title - testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very long.Summary: The subjects Wilson treats - Dickens and Kipling, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, Joyce and Sophocles, and perhaps most surprising, Jacques Casanova - reveal the range and dexterity of his interests, his historical grasp, his learning, and his intellectual curiosity.Summary: Wilson's essays did not give rise to a new body of literary theory nor to a new school of literary criticism. Rather, he animated or reanimated the reputations of the artists he treated and furthered the quest for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship.
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Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, c1941.

Dickens: The Two Scrooges -- The Kipling that Nobody Read -- Uncomfortable Casanova -- Justice to Edith Wharton -- Hemingway: Gauge of Morale -- The Dream of H. C. Earwicker -- Philoctetes: The Wound and the Bow.

The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson (1885-1972). This welcome re-issue - one of several for this title - testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very long.

The subjects Wilson treats - Dickens and Kipling, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, Joyce and Sophocles, and perhaps most surprising, Jacques Casanova - reveal the range and dexterity of his interests, his historical grasp, his learning, and his intellectual curiosity.

Wilson's essays did not give rise to a new body of literary theory nor to a new school of literary criticism. Rather, he animated or reanimated the reputations of the artists he treated and furthered the quest for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship.

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