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  • Every Force Evolves a Form

    Twenty Essays

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Guy Davenport demonstrates his unparalleled critical vision as he interprets art, literature, and cultureIn this collection of 20 essays, Guy Davenport applies his insightful gaze and critical wisdom to topics including modern art and the effects of the automobile on contemporary society. His work ranges from "What Are Those Monkeys Doing?" in which he links the paintings of Rousseau to the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Geography of the Imagination

    Forty Essays

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Series Libro 10 - Nonpareil Books
    “One of the most sinuous stylists and searching minds of the twentieth century.”—Washington PostForty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the reader’s guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—pointing out the values and avenues of thought ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Death of Picasso

    New & Selected Writing

    de Guy Davenport ...
    "Davenport writes with equal imagination and verve about the tanginess of an orange, the mystery of love, quantum physics, music, and a lashing rainstorm." — BooklistFeaturing both short stories and critical pieces, The Death of Picasso exhibits the versatility and innovative thinking that drives all of Guy Davenport's work. As a critic, he takes on topics such as Ruskin's life and influences and ... Leer más

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  • The Jules Verne Steam Balloon

    Nine Stories

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Guy Davenport's cerebral and innovative stories intricately assemble centuries' worth of images and ideasGuy Davenport's stories seamlessly illuminate his vast knowledge of theology, philosophy, botany, and art, in his singular style of finding harmony in the juxtaposition of different themes. Whether critiquing the politics of socialist realist art in "We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin ... Leer más

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  • Eclogues

    Eight Stories

    de Guy Davenport ...
    A unique collection of stories alive with intellectual and imaginative energyInspired by sources as diverse as Virgil, Dumas, and the daily newspaper, the 8 stories in Guy Davenport's Eclogues reflect the wide-ranging passions and curiosities of one of America's most original and agile writers. Taking the form of diary entries and pastoral poetry, and with allusions to Italo Calvino and the Greek ... Leer más

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  • Apples and Pears

    And Other Stories

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Guy Davenport links the essential ideas of our cultural landscape in stories that nod to the philosophers, artists, and writers who came before himReality, fiction, history, and art all converge in this collection as Guy Davenport explores complex ideas within narratives that are full of emotional depth. Fearless and inventive in style, these stories take many forms, such as the imagined World War ... Leer más

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  • Da Vinci's Bicycle

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Series series New Directions Classic
    Da Vinci’s Bicycle, Guy Davenport’s second collection of stories, was first published in 1979, and contains some of his most important fiction. Written with tremendous wit, intelligence, and verve, the stories are based on historical figures whose endeavors were too early, too late, or went against the grain of their time. They are all people who see the world differently from their contemporaries ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Geography of the Imagination

    Forty Essays

    de Guy Davenport ...
    Narrado por Paul Woodson ...

    Completo

    19 hora 55 minutos

    Forty essays on history, art, and literature to lift your mind and spirit. Guy Davenport serves as the listener's guide through history and literature, providing links between music and sculpture, modernist poets and classic philosophers, the past and present—pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking.Davenport seemingly read (and often translated ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • The Guy Davenport Reader

    de Guy Davenport, Erik Reece ...
    Modernism gave us Yeats and Picasso, Stravinsky and Balanchine—and it gave us Guy Davenport, perhaps its finest and most neglected heir, whose four decades of fiction, poetry, essays, and translations are collected here in paperback for the very first time*"The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Questioning Minds

    The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

    de Guy Davenport, Hugh Kenner ...
    "The most intellectually exhilarating work published in 2018 . . . A lasting treasure." —Michael Dirda, The Washington PostHugh 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Places Lost and Found

    Travel Essays from the Hudson Review

    de Dick Davis, Joseph Bennett, Guy Davenport, Alice Bloom, C. B. Cox, Charles W. Millard, Paul Moore Jr., Robert S. Clark, John P. Sisk, C. S. Giscombe, Lynda McDonnell, Madison Smartt Bell, Diana Webster, Jacqueline W. Brown, Hilary Spurling, Frederick Brown, Brooke Allen, Herbert Gold, Christian N. Desrosiers, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Martina Broner, Laurie Olin, David Mason, Jenny Erpenbeck, Susan Bernofsky, A. E. Stallings ...
    The Hudson Review has always had an international focus. Travel and reports from abroad have figured prominently in the journal, including essays on exotic and picturesque locales, as well as accounts from war-torn areas and the experiences of exiles. Many of these are pilgrimages; others are harrowing memoirs. What unites even the most devastating of these accounts are intellectual curiosity and ... Leer más

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  • Lectures on Don Quixote

    de Vladimir Nabokov ...
    One of the twentieth century's greatest novelists offers his take on the Spanish classic.The author of Lolita and Pale Fire was not only a master of fiction but a distinguished literary critic as well. In this collection of lectures, which he delivered at Harvard in the early 1950s, Vladimir Nabokov shares insights based on a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the seventeenth-century novel by Miguel ... Leer más

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