Speaking of Beauty - Softcover

Donoghue, Denis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300105932 ISBN 13: 9780300105933

Verlag: Yale University Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Donoghue Professor Denis

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Críticas

"Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."-Hugh Kenner, author of The Pound Era "Speaking of Beauty is a beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day. Donoghue performs, like the rider in Wallace Stevens's essay, 'The Noble Rider and the Sound of Words,' a heroic work of conservation and elevation."-J. Hillis Miller, University of California, Irvine

Reseña del editor

A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman. "An excellent and eloquent book."-James Wood, New York Times Book Review "A beautiful book about beauty. Enormously learned, allusive, recuperative, and citational, it is a passionate meditation on what has been said about beauty in the West from the Greeks to the present day."-J. Hillis Miller "Donoghue talks . . . with a delightful informality and absence of dogma. . . . One of the most charming features of Denis Donoghue's book is his appendix of 'afterwords,' brief quotations on beauty from sundry writers."-John Bayley, New York Review of Books "Continuously fascinating, continuously readable, the book speaks of beauty, and of speakers of beauty, in its own calm, steady voice. You won't want to lay it down."-Hugh Kenner

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• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300105932
• ISBN 13: 9780300105933
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 222