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The Guy Davenport Reader by Guy Davenport (Hardback, 2013)

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Author: Erik Reece, Guy Davenport. Title: The Guy Davenport Reader. Format: Hardback. Item Length: 152mm. Item Height: 228mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. Release Date: 16/07/2013.

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The difference between the Parthen and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all else a difference of imagination. The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes. --Guy Davenport Modernism spawned the greatest explosion of art, architecture, literature, painting, music, and dance of any era since the Renaissance. In its long unfolding, from Yeats, Pound and Eliot to Picasso and Matisse, from Diaghilev and Balanchine to Cunningham and Stravinsky and Cage, the work of Modernism has provided the cultural vocabulary of our time. One of the last pure Modernists, Guy Davenport was perhaps the finest stylist and most protean craftsman of his generation. Publishing more than two dozen books of fiction, essays, poetry and translations over a career of more than forty years, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990. In poetry and prose, Davenport drew upon the most archaic and the most modern of influences to create what he called assemblages --lush experiments that often defy classification. Woven throughout is a radical and coherent philosophy of desire, design and human happiness. But never before has Davenport's fiction, nfiction, poetry and translations been collected together in one compendium. Eight years after his death, The Guy Davenport Reader offers the first true introduction to the far-ranging work of this neglected genius.

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Publisher
Counterpoint
ISBN-10
161902103x
ISBN-13
9781619021037
eBay Product ID (ePID)
158354547

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Author
Guy Davenport
Format
Cloth over Boards, Hardback
Language
English
Topic
Literary Criticism
Genre
Literary Criticism

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Weight
699g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

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Place of Publication
Berkeley
Spine
41mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Guy Davenport was born in South Carolina and lived for more than forty years in Lexington, Kentucky, where he died in 2005. The author of more than twenty books, including Geography Of The Imagination, Eclogues and The Death Of Picasso, he was also a distinguished professor at the University of Kentucky and a MacArthur Fellow in 1990. Erik Reece, himself a student of Davenport and now his literary executor, is also the author of Lost Mountain, An American Gospel and Field Work.
Date of Publication
01/08/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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