Full name: The World Within the Word: Essays

Author: William H. Gass Year: 1978 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781628970395

In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valery, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. The vividness and clarity of Gass's writing, the unabashed love and inimitable use of language-his startling metaphors, the sinuousness of his philosophy, the originality of his vision-make each essay a searching revelation of its subject, as well as an example of Gass's own singular artistry. Similar books: The Geography of the Imagination by Guy Davenport The Fun Stuff by James Wood Selected Essays by T. S. Eliot Inner Workings by J. M. Coetzee A Temple of Texts by William H. Gass The War Against Cliche by Martin Amis Under the Sign of Saturn by Susan Sontag Fiction and the Figures of Life by William H. Gass Hugging the Shore by John Updike How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken by Daniel Mendelsohn Finding a Form by William H. Gass Encounter by Milan Kundera Due Considerations by John Updike Odd Jobs by John Updike Habitations of the Word by William H. Gass Tests of Time by William H. Gass Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver The Lost Tools of Learning by Dorothy L. Sayers Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino Lectures on Literature by Vladimir Nabokov