Serious noticing: selected essays
James Wood is our greatest modern literary critic. Here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-defining 'Hysterical Realism' to his more personal reflections on family, religion and sensibility, Serious Noticing offers a comprehensive overview of his writing over the...
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| Zusammenfassung: | James Wood is our greatest modern literary critic. Here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-defining 'Hysterical Realism' to his more personal reflections on family, religion and sensibility, Serious Noticing offers a comprehensive overview of his writing over the last twenty years. These essays offer more than a viewpoint - they show how to bring the eye of critical reading to life as a whole |
| Beschreibung: | "These essays originally appeared, in slightly different form, in The New Yorker, London Review of Books, and The New Republic"--Title page verso |
| Beschreibung: | vi, 508 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781529111910 |
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