Wilson, Edmund,  1895-1972. <br/><br/>
The wound and the bow :  seven studies in literature / 
by Edmund Wilson. 
 - Athens :  Ohio University Press,  1997. 
 - xvii, 242 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, c1941. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0821411896 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96051164  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Suffering in literature.<br/>Literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.S742  / W55 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.93353