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Artistic License : Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior by Brooke Allen (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherDee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-101566635950
ISBN-139781566635950
eBay Product ID (ePID)30521352
Product Key Features
Book TitleArtistic License : Three Centuries of Good Writing and Bad Behavior
Number of Pages264 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicAuthorship, General, American / General, Essays, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2004
GenreLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Self-Help, Literary Collections
AuthorBrooke Allen
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight17 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width6.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-045537
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsIn an age when many scholars feel that literary theory is more important than literature itself, Allen's obvious love of literature and those who create it is refreshing., In an age of academic specialiazation, few writers read so broadly and write so well for a general audience…. Allen has an enviable command of her material., Allen is one of the best American literary reviewers working today…. Crisp delivery, sure grasp of moral and aesthetic proportion, and genuine respect for her audience...., [Allen] is so well informed and perspicacious that these pieces surpass their generative occasions and succeed in standing alone as worthwhile essays., Allen is one of the best American literary reviewers working today . Crisp delivery, sure grasp of moral and aesthetic proportion, and genuine respect for her audience...., …Saucy and shrewd new collection…matches literary erudition with a lithe yet pithy writing style..., Allen has a talent for marshalling the pertinent facts to expose her subjects' idiosyncratic or paradoxical elements., In an age of academic specialiazation, few writers read so broadly and write so well for a general audience . Allen has an enviable command of her material., Her writers are spirits indeed; Allen channels them earnestly, and in presenting them unpolished she honors their memory., ...A delightfully eclectic collection of essays on literary subjects.... These essays bear rereading...every piece tells a shapely story, spiky with idiosyncratic particulars yet also exemplary in some way.
Dewey Decimal820.9
SynopsisBrooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Ms. Allen shows how the incendiaries of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, in real terms, far more daring and more disturbing to the moral and ideological systems of their time than is the modern mutineer, who stages his rebellion within a social framework that condones--or at least pretends to condone--rebellion. She finds it surprising that so many writers held on to artistic rectitude in the face of all-but-insuperable personal failings., Brooke Allen's sparkling new collection of essays considers the dysfunctional and apparently destructive nature of great talent. Her brief but pungent profiles help enrich our understanding of the writers' works.
LC Classification NumberPR106.A55 2004
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