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Description:Books Are Not Life But Then What Is demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and the dignity of life in literature. “It’s helpful to be reminded now and then,” Marvin Mudrick writes about Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield, “while novelists persist in their noisy betrayals of human dignity, that living has a longer history than reading, and truth than fiction.” Mudrick insists on seeing authors and their characters as people and he describes and judges them as frankly as if they were living among us. In this collection, we meet heroes, monsters, and every shade of character in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics. We get to know each of them, so vivid are Mudrick’s quotations and commentary. Essay after essay demonstrates that good criticism is itself the stuff of good life and good literature. “To call Marvin Mudrick a great reviewer is not just to say that he writes great reviews. It is to say also that certain qualities which he exemplifies better than anyone else, qualities which are absolutely essential to a reviewer but not as important in others, obtain in Mudrick’s prose whether or not he is writing a review. A reviewer needs, most of all, good taste and thc ability to say a lot in very few words. T. S. Eliot was not as good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick.” --Roger Sale, University of Washington “’Pure and intense instances of life in print’ is Mudrick’s bold, and bald, way of saying what he's looking for. Mudrick’s writing is never dull. Something happens on every page or paragraph to jolt the reader into questioning an old evaluation, agreeing or disagreeing with a new one. He is the least abstract critic one could imagine. What you finally come away from Mudrick wanting to do is read or re-read the books he talks about, and anybody who thinks this experience a common one hasn’t read much literary criticism recently.” --William Pritchard, Amherst CollegeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is?. To get started finding Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Books Are Not Life But Then What Is demonstrates how much Marvin Mudrick loved life and the dignity of life in literature. “It’s helpful to be reminded now and then,” Marvin Mudrick writes about Ronald Blythe’s Akenfield, “while novelists persist in their noisy betrayals of human dignity, that living has a longer history than reading, and truth than fiction.” Mudrick insists on seeing authors and their characters as people and he describes and judges them as frankly as if they were living among us. In this collection, we meet heroes, monsters, and every shade of character in between: Chaucer, Pepys, Rochester, Boswell, Jane Austen (and Anne Elliot), Dickens (and Pecksniff), Pushkin, Tolstoy, Kafka, Edmund Wilson, and many other novelists, scholars, and critics. We get to know each of them, so vivid are Mudrick’s quotations and commentary. Essay after essay demonstrates that good criticism is itself the stuff of good life and good literature. “To call Marvin Mudrick a great reviewer is not just to say that he writes great reviews. It is to say also that certain qualities which he exemplifies better than anyone else, qualities which are absolutely essential to a reviewer but not as important in others, obtain in Mudrick’s prose whether or not he is writing a review. A reviewer needs, most of all, good taste and thc ability to say a lot in very few words. T. S. Eliot was not as good a reviewer as Marvin Mudrick.” --Roger Sale, University of Washington “’Pure and intense instances of life in print’ is Mudrick’s bold, and bald, way of saying what he's looking for. Mudrick’s writing is never dull. Something happens on every page or paragraph to jolt the reader into questioning an old evaluation, agreeing or disagreeing with a new one. He is the least abstract critic one could imagine. What you finally come away from Mudrick wanting to do is read or re-read the books he talks about, and anybody who thinks this experience a common one hasn’t read much literary criticism recently.” --William Pritchard, Amherst CollegeWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is?. To get started finding Books Are Not Life, But Then What Is?, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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