Bound to Please
An Extraordinary One-volume Literary Education
New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xxvii, 525 pages ; 25 cm
Surveying the whole world of books, literary essayist Dirda opens with an impassioned critique of modern reading habits, then presents many of the great, and idiosyncratic, writers he loves the most. He starts with ancient classics and ends with groundbreaking science fiction; in between, he writes about everything from Renaissance intellectual history and Russian literary theory to spaghetti westerns and neglected modern masters.--From publisher description.
Contents:
Reading Beyond the Best-Seller List: A Polemic and a Plea XVIII -- I Old Masters 1 -- II Professionals at Work 51 -- III Romantic Dreamers 79 -- IV Visionaries and Moralists 115 -- V We Moderns 157 -- VI Serious Entertainers 207 -- VII Critical Observers 263 -- VIII Lovers, Poets, and Madmen 303 -- IX Magicians of the Word 337 -- X Europeans 371 -- XI Writers of Our Time 417 -- XII Performing Selves 465.
ISBN:
0393057577
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GENERAL INFO Library Dir | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references.