Research Catalog

Title

Writing into the world : essays, 1973-1987 / Terrence Des Pres ; introduction by Paul Mariani ; foreword by Elie Wiesel.

Author

Des Pres, Terrence

Publication

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Viking, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Mariani, Paul L.
• Wiesel, Elie, 1928-2016

Description

xix, 295 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism
• Literature
• Literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Essays.
• Literary criticism.
• American essays
• Critiques littéraires.

Contents

Foreword by Elie Wiesel -- Intro by Paul Mariani -- Writing into the World (1985) -- Prophecies of grace and doom: The function of criticism at the present time (1975) -- War crimes: a review of Marcel Ophul's 'The memory of justice' (1977) -- The authority of silence in Elie Wiesel's art (1978) -- Poetry and politics: the example of Nazim Hikmet (1978) -- Introduction to Jean-Francois Steiner's 'Treblinka' (1979) -- The Bettelheim problem (1979) -- Goodness incarnate: a review of Philip Hallie's 'Lest Innocent blood be shed' (1979) -- Against the under toad: the novels of John Irving (1980) -- The dreaming back (1980) -- Into the mire: the case of Bertolt Brecht (1981) -- A history of death: a review of Philippe Aries's 'The hour of our death' (1982) -- Auden'strutht (1982) -- Terror and the sublime (1983) -- Self/ landscape/ grid (1983) -- Accident and its scene: reflections on the death of John Gardner (1983) -- Orwell and the O'Brienists: an aside on criticism in the academy (1984) -- Channel fire: Hardy and the limits of poetry (1985) -- On governing narratives: TheTurkish-Armenian case (1986) -- Sisters to Antigone: arevieww of Wendy Wilder Larsen and Tran Thi Nga's 'Shallow Graves: Two Women andVietname' (1986) -- Holocaust Laughter (1987) -- Memory of boyhood (1973).

ISBN

• 0670804649
• 9780670804641

LCCN

89040799

OCLC

• ocm20995732
• 20995732
• SCSB-1932487

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library