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Mason, David, 1954- author.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Incarnation & metamo...
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Incarnation & metamorphosis : can literature change us? / David Mason.
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Mason, David, 1954- author.
Philadelphia : Paul Dry Books, 2023.
Subjects
Literature -- History and criticism.
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9781589881723 (trade paperback) :
1589881729 (trade paperback)
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226 pages ; 22 cm
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First Paul Dry Books edtion.
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""Literary criticism," David Mason writes, "ought to entertain as well as illuminate." In these essays Mason tells stories about embodiment and change, incarnation and metamorphosis, drawing connections between art and life without confusing the two. Mason considers the many kinds of change we encounter in our lives, our desire for justice, and the ways great writers complicate that desire. He discusses the lives and works of writers like Montaigne, Diderot, and Neruda as well as his colorful father's fascination with a fictional character. He takes up such contemporary figures as the daring Australian writer Helen Garner, the playwright Tom Stoppard, and the poet-critic Dana Gioia; has fresh things to say about the perils of fame in the careers of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney; and mourns the loss of poet Michael Donaghy. Incarnation & Metamorphosis is a book about living with literature-Mason writes that literature "is telling us that we are seen, warts and all. Criticism, such as the essays in this book, is a way of seeing back.""--
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Hawaii State Library
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814.54 Ma
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12/29/2023
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