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Reflections On Exile

By Said, Edward W.

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Reflections On Exile

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With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
2
Number of Pages:
656
Release Date:
2012-08-02
Publication Date:
2012-08-02
Publisher:
Granta Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1847085970
ISBN13:
9781847085979
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
743 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
48 cm
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