| Description |
xxxv, 617 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Labyrinth of incarnations : the essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Sense and sensibility : on R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E. D. Hirsch -- Amateur of the insoluble : on E. M. Cioran -- A standing civil war : on T. E. Lawrence -- Arabic prose and prose fiction after 1948 -- Between chance and determinism : Lukacs's Aesthetik -- Conrad and Nietzsche -- Vico on the discipline of bodies and texts -- Tourism among the dogs : on George Orwell -- Bitter dispatches from the Third World -- Grey Eminence : on Walter Lippmann -- Among the believers : on V. S. Naipaul -- Opponents, audiences, constituencies, and community -- Bursts of meaning : on John Berger and Jean Mohr -- Egyptian rites -- The future of criticism -- Reflections on exile -- Michel Foucault, 1927-1984 -- Orientalism reconsidered -- Remembrances of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art : on Glenn Gould -- How not to get gored : on Ernest Hemingway -- Foucault and the imagination of power -- The horizon of R. P. Blackmur -- Cairo recalled : growing up in the cultural crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt -- Through gringo eyes : with Conrad in Latin America -- The quest for Gillo Pontecorvo -- Representing the colonized : anthropology's interlocutors -- After Mahfouz -- Jungle calling : on Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan -- Cairo and Alexandria -- Homage to a belly-dancer : on Tahia Carioca -- Introduction to Moby-Dick -- The politics of knowledge -- Identity, authority, and freedom : the potentate and the traveler -- The Anglo-Arab encounter : on Ahdaf Soueif -- Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation -- Traveling theory reconsidered -- History, literature, and geography -- Contra mundum : on Eric Hobsbawm -- Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift -- Fantasy's role in the making of nations : on Jacqueline Rose -- On defiance and taking positions -- From silence to sound and back again : music, literature, and history -- On lost causes -- Between worlds -- The clash of definitions : on Samuel Huntington. |
| Subject |
Politics and literature.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Politics and culture.
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Criticism -- Political aspects.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
0674003020 (alk. paper) |
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