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- Condition
- Good
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- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- China
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- ISBN
- 9781619021815
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1619021811
ISBN-13
9781619021815
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240341677
Product Key Features
Book Title
Questioning Minds : the Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner
Number of Pages
2016 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Modern / 20th Century, American / General, Literary, Semiotics & Theory, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Teaching Methods & Materials / General
Genre
Literary Criticism, Education, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
5 in
Item Weight
121.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-061270
Reviews
Praise for Guy Davenport "Guy Davenport seems comfortable in any genre... For whatever else he is, Davenport is an entertainer ... to the point of being able to take literary dullards like Kafka and Poe and turn them, too, into charming entertainers."-- RALPH "There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "As a critic, Davenport shines as an intrepid appreciator, an ideal teacher. By preference, he likes to walk the reader through a painting or a poem, teasing out the meaning of odd details, making connections with history and other works of art. His must-have essay collections, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form, displays his range: With a rainwater clarity, he can write about the naturalistic Louis Aggassiz or ancient poetry and thought . . . He can account for the importance of prehistoric cave art to early modernism or outline the achievements of Joyce and Pound. He can make you yearn to read or look again at neglected masters like the poets Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky and the painters Balthus and Charles Burchfield. He can send you out eagerly searching for C. M. Doughty''s six-volume epic poem, The Dawn in Britain, and for the works of Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams and Paul Metcalf. In all this, his method is nothing other than the deep attentiveness engendered by love; that and a firm faith in simply knowing things. He conveys, to adopt his own words about painter Paul Cadmus, ''a perfect balance of spirit and information.''" --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "One of our most gifted and versatile men of letters." -- New York Times "If the language of fiction is to be of any lasting use . . . it must struggle to define--and, in so doing, attain--moments of liberty. Davenport has succeeded in that regard, finding new ways to dramatize one, suggestive question: What if we were free? In their language and form, their intelligence and art, his stories remain some of our most eloquent, individual, and lasting answers to that inexhaustible question." -- Harper''s "Encountering his work one is reminded of how exciting literary modernism can be, how much pleasure it can afford, and how far from moribund are the concerns and methods of Joyce, Pound, and the rest of the modernist gang. . . . And, for those who have yet to discover and jubilate in Davenport''s work, this collection superseded earlier anthologies as the most convenient place to start." -- The Three Penny Review "Unquestionably brilliant . . ." -- Library Journal "A stellar stylist with a tantalizingly light touch, rarefied yet relaxed sense of humor, and deep insights into the literary and artistic greats he transforms into fictional characters or boon imaginary companions, Davenport writes with equal imagination and verve about the tanginess of an orange, the mystery of love, quantum physics, music, and a lashing rainstorm." -- Booklist Praise for Hugh Kenner "There is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the twentieth century in England. Author of previous studies of Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions." -- The New York Times "As always, Kenner is original, provocative, stimulating, occasionally perverse, and immensely readable." -- Library Journal "It''s always an unexpected pleasure to find serious literary criticism written as if the English language still mattered, as Hugh Kenner''s writing insists that it does." --T. R. Edwards, The New York Times Book Review, Praise for Guy Davenport Guy Davenport seems comfortable in any genre... For whatever else he is, Davenport is an entertainer ... to the point of being able to take literary dullards like Kafka and Poe and turn them, too, into charming entertainers." - RALPH "There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental." - Los Angeles Times Book Review "As a critic, Davenport shines as an intrepid appreciator, an ideal teacher. By preference, he likes to walk the reader through a painting or a poem, teasing out the meaning of odd details, making connections with history and other works of art. His must-have essay collections, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form, displays his range: With a rainwater clarity, he can write about the naturalistic Louis Aggassiz or ancient poetry and thought . . . He can account forthe importance of prehistoric cave art to early modernism or outline the achievements of Joyce and Pound. He can make you yearn to read or look again at neglected masters like the poets Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky and the painters Balthus and Charles Burchfield. He can send you out eagerly searching for C. M. Doughty''s six-volume epic poem, The Dawn in Britain, and for the works of Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams and Paul Metcalf. In all this, his method is nothing other than the deep attentiveness engendered by love; that and a firm faith in simply knowing things. He conveys, to adopt his own words about painter Paul Cadmus, ''a perfect balance of spirit and information.''" - Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "One of our most gifted and versatile men of letters." - New York Times "If the language of fiction is to be of any lasting use . . . it must struggle to define - and, in so doing, attain - moments of liberty. Davenport has succeeded in that regard, finding new ways to dramatize one, suggestive question: What if we were free? In their language and form, their intelligence and art, his stories remain some of our most eloquent, individual, and lasting answers to that inexhaustible question." - Harper''s "Encountering his work one is reminded of how exciting literary modernism can be, how much pleasure it can afford, and how far from moribund are the concerns and methods of Joyce, Pound, and the rest of the modernist gang. . . . And, for those who have yet to discover and jubilate in Davenport''s work, this collection superseded earlier anthologies as the most convenient place to start." - The Three Penny Review "Unquestionably brilliant . . ." - Library Journal "A stellar stylist with a tantalizingly light touch, rarefied yet relaxed sense of humor, and deep insights into the literary and artistic greats he transforms into fictional characters or boon imaginary companions, Davenport writes with equal imagination and verve about the tanginess of an orange, the mystery of love, quantum physics, music, and a lashing rainstorm." - Booklist Praise for Hugh Kenner "As always, Kenner is original, provocative, stimulating, occasionally perverse, and immensely readable." - Library Journal "There is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the twentieth century in England. Author of previous studies of Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions." - The New York Times "It''s always an unexpected pleasure to find serious literary criticism written as if the English language still mattered, as Hugh Kenner''s writing insists that it does." - T. R. Edwards, The New York Times Book Review ", Praise for Guy Davenport "Guy Davenport seems comfortable in any genre... For whatever else he is, Davenport is an entertainer ... to the point of being able to take literary dullards like Kafka and Poe and turn them, too, into charming entertainers."-- RALPH "There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "As a critic, Davenport shines as an intrepid appreciator, an ideal teacher. By preference, he likes to walk the reader through a painting or a poem, teasing out the meaning of odd details, making connections with history and other works of art. His must-have essay collections, The Geography of the Imagination and Every Force Evolves a Form, displays his range: With a rainwater clarity, he can write about the naturalistic Louis Aggassiz or ancient poetry and thought . . . He can account for the importance of prehistoric cave art to early modernism or outline the achievements of Joyce and Pound. He can make you yearn to read or look again at neglected masters like the poets Charles Olson and Louis Zukofsky and the painters Balthus and Charles Burchfield. He can send you out eagerly searching for C. M. Doughty''s six-volume epic poem, The Dawn in Britain, and for the works of Ronald Johnson, Jonathan Williams and Paul Metcalf. In all this, his method is nothing other than the deep attentiveness engendered by love; that and a firm faith in simply knowing things. He conveys, to adopt his own words about painter Paul Cadmus, ''a perfect balance of spirit and information.''" --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World "One of our most gifted and versatile men of letters." -- New York Times "If the language of fiction is to be of any lasting use . . . it must struggle to define--and, in so doing, attain--moments of liberty. Davenport has succeeded in that regard, finding new ways to dramatize one, suggestive question: What if we were free? In their language and form, their intelligence and art, his stories remain some of our most eloquent, individual, and lasting answers to that inexhaustible question." -- Harper''s "Encountering his work one is reminded of how exciting literary modernism can be, how much pleasure it can afford, and how far from moribund are the concerns and methods of Joyce, Pound, and the rest of the modernist gang. . . . And, for those who have yet to discover and jubilate in Davenport''s work, this collection superseded earlier anthologies as the most convenient place to start." -- The Three Penny Review "Unquestionably brilliant . . ." -- Library Journal "A stellar stylist with a tantalizingly light touch, rarefied yet relaxed sense of humor, and deep insights into the literary and artistic greats he transforms into fictional characters or boon imaginary companions, Davenport writes with equal imagination and verve about the tanginess of an orange, the mystery of love, quantum physics, music, and a lashing rainstorm." -- Booklist Praise for Hugh Kenner "As always, Kenner is original, provocative, stimulating, occasionally perverse, and immensely readable." -- Library Journal "There is no critic who has more firmly established his claim to valuable literary property than has Kenner to the first three decades of the twentieth century in England. Author of previous studies of Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Pound (to name a few), Kenner bestrides modern literature if not like a colossus then at least a presence of formidable proportions." -- The New York Times "It''s always an unexpected pleasure to find serious literary criticism written as if the English language still mattered, as Hugh Kenner''s writing insists that it does." --T. R. Edwards, The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
"The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Hugh Kenner (1923-2003) and Guy Davenport (1927-2005) first met in September 1953 when each gave a paper on Ezra Pound at Columbia University. They met again in the fall of 1957, and their correspondence begins with Kenner's letter of March 7, 1958. In the next forty-four years, they exchanged over one thousand letters. An extraordinary document of a literary friendship that lasted half a century, the letters represent one of the great and--with the dawn of the age of text and Twitter--one of the last major epistolary exchanges of its kind. Students and lovers of modernism will find, in the letters, matchless engagements with Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, Basil Bunting, Charles Tomlinson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Stan Brakhage, Jonathan Williams, and the American modernists William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Louis Zukofsky. The correspondence ends with Kenner's letter of August 9, 2002, lamenting how they had drifted apart. The extensive notes and cross-referencing of archival sources in Questioning Minds are a major contribution to the study of literary modernism. The letters contained within explore how new works were conceived and developed by both writers. They record faithfully, and with candor, the urgency that each brought to his intellectual and creative pursuits. Here is a singular opportunity to follow the development of their unique fictions and essays.
LC Classification Number
PS3554.A86Z48 2018
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