| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xi, 306 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Justice (again) to Edith Wharton -- Mrs. Virginia Woolf: a madwoman and her nurse -- Diary-keeping -- Morgan and Maurice: a fairy tale -- Forster as moralist: a reply to Mrs. A.F. -- Truman Capote reconsidered -- Literary Blacks and Jews -- Cultural impersonation: Bech, passing ; Esau as Jacob -- Fourth sparrow: the magisterial reach of Gershom Scholem -- Toward a new Yiddish -- Literature as idol: Harold Bloom -- Riddle of the ordinary -- Remembering Maurice Samuel -- I.B. Singer's Book of creation -- Phantasmagoria of Bruno Schulz -- Out of the flames: the recovery of Gertrud Kolmar -- Biological premises of our sad earth-speck -- Innovation and redemption: what literature means -- Hole/birth catalogue -- Justice to feminism: Previsions of the demise of the dancing dog ; Literature and the politics of sex: a dissent -- Lesson of the master -- Drugstore in winter. |
| Added Title |
Art and ardor |
| ISBN |
0394530829 |
|
9780394530826 |
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