Bibliograph

American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi

Type

Label

American audacity, in defense of literary daring, William Giraldi

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

American audacity

Oclc number

1005110092

Responsibility statement

William Giraldi

Sub title

in defense of literary daring

Summary

"Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist. American Audacity gathers Giraldi's fierce and witty considerations of American writers and themes, including a never-before-published appreciation of James Baldwin and an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature. With deep seeing and enormous learning, Giraldi considers giants from the past (Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harper Lee), some of our great living critics and novelists (Harold Bloom, Cynthia Ozick, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer), and those cultural-literary themes that have concerned him as a novelist (best-selling books, the problem of Catholic fiction, and his viral essay on bibliophilia). Demanding that literature be urgent and audacious, this book is itself an act of intellectual and stylistic daring. At a time when literature is threatened by ceaseless electronic distraction, Giraldi reaffirms the pleasure and wisdom of literary values" --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Creative destruction -- Problem of the Catholic novelist -- Bibliophile -- Art of hate mail -- Writer's immortality -- American bestsellers -- Single shade of grey -- Memoir now -- Terms of terror -- Promise of happiness

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