Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (häftad)
Format
Häftad (Paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
656
Utgivningsdatum
2002-12-01
Upplaga
New ed
Förlag
Harvard University Press
Dimensioner
233 x 160 x 30 mm
Vikt
855 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780674009974

Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Häftad,  Engelska, 2002-12-01
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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published "The World, the Text, and the Critic" in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic of our time--and offers further evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and our culture. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
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Said's work has been transformative...["Reflections on Exile" is] indispensable for all college and university libraries. -- K. TAlAlyan "Choice" (07/01/2001)