An edition of The wound and the bow (1941)

The wound and the bow

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An edition of The wound and the bow (1941)

The wound and the bow

seven studies in literature

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The Wound and the Bow collects seven wonderful essays on the delicate theme of the relation between art and suffering by the legendary literary and social critic, Edmund Wilson (1885-1972). This welcome re-issue - one of several for this title - testifies to the value publishers put on it and to a reluctance among them ever to let it stay out of print for very long.

The subjects Wilson treats - Dickens and Kipling, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, Joyce and Sophocles, and perhaps most surprising, Jacques Casanova - reveal the range and dexterity of his interests, his historical grasp, his learning, and his intellectual curiosity.

Wilson's essays did not give rise to a new body of literary theory nor to a new school of literary criticism. Rather, he animated or reanimated the reputations of the artists he treated and furthered the quest for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship.

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English
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295

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The wound and the bow: seven studies in literature
1941, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Table of Contents

Dickens: the two Scrooges.
The Kipling that nobody read.
Uncomfortable Casanova.
Justice to Edith Wharton.
Hemingway: gauge of morale.
The dream of H.C. Earwicker.
Philoctetes: the wound and the bow.

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[Boston]

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Dewey Decimal Class
804
Library of Congress
PN511 .W633

The Physical Object

Pagination
4 p. l., 295 p.
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6420065M
Internet Archive
woundbowsevenstu0000wils_m4c5
LCCN
41014343
OCLC/WorldCat
2286618, 506883168
Library Thing
385210

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