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Atrocity and Amnesia
The Political Novel since 1945
Häftad, 1987
1666 kr
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Working deliberately against the grain of dominant critical assumptions, this book examines the work of authors such as Grass, Garcia Marquez, Solzhenitsyn, and Kundera, and argues that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophical purpose if one is to understand these works.
Atrocity and Amnesia
The Political Novel since 1945
E-bok, 1987
1160 kr
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Working deliberately against the grain of assumptions dominant in the contemporary literary academy, Boyers examines novels by Günter Grass, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Milan Kundera and others, arguing that it is necessary to speak of character, ethics, and philosophic purpose if one is to …
The Fate of Ideas
Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals
Inbunden, 2015
1382 kr
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As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, …
The Fate of Ideas
Seductions, Betrayals, Appraisals
Häftad, 2017
351 kr
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As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, …
Tyranny of Virtue
Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
Ljudbok, 2019
264 kr
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From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, “ a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage” (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart …
Excitable Women, Damaged Men
Short Stories
Häftad, 2005
256 kr
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These astonishing stories deal with people in crisis or at turning points in their lives. Possessed by moods they barely understand, these characters confront moments of choice that determine their identities or self-worth. Typically, they are not equal to such moments, and the stories, which range …
Maestros & Monsters
Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
E-bok, 2023
161 kr
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This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US. For audiences at Woody Allen movies Sontag was …
Maestros & Monsters
Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
Häftad, 2023
248 kr
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This is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status—Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner principally in Europe, though also for a time in the US. For audiences at Woody Allen movies Sontag was …
The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
Häftad, 2021
225 kr
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Tyranny of Virtue
Identity, the Academy, and the Hunt for Political Heresies
E-bok, 2019
173 kr
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From public intellectual and professor Robert Boyers, “ a powerfully persuasive, insightful, and provocative prose that mixes erudition and first-hand reportage” (Joyce Carol Oates) addressing recent developments in American culture and arguing for the tolerance of difference that is at the heart …
The Dictator's Dictation
The Politics of Novels and Novelists
Inbunden, 2005
552 kr
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In these elegant essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W. G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia …
