- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (30 April 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141012986
- ISBN-13: 978-0141012988
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,403,491 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Reviewery" collects in one volume 50 pieces by a writer whom many regard as our greatest literary critic. Ricks writes compellingly about novelists (Waugh, Joyce and Henry James), about poets (Larkin and Eliot), about filmmakers (Kubrick and Coppola), sociologists (Goffman and McLuhan), photographers (Capa) and music makers. The result is an account of the cultural landscape of the 20th century.
About the Author
Christopher Ricks is a Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and the codirector of the Editorial Institute. He was formerly Prof. of English at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge. He has published books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S.Eliot, and Beckett, and edited the standard edn of Tennyson. He lives in Boston and Gloucestershire.
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No less than fifty reviews by the English Literature Professor and Bob Dylan critic.
Culled from his best work in journals and newspapers from both sides of the Atlantic Ricks is at his best here working with the reader and forcing him or her to ask 'what can be learnt, why do I enjoy this, could it be better?' Whetheraddressing Norman Mailer, Gerard manley Hopkins or The Beatles Ricks is at the sharp end of LitCrit without being overtly addicted to word play, punning or self conscious biographical intrusions that were too present and marred the major work he wrote on Bob Dylan.
The Book is divided into sections: Lives, Arguments, Critics, Novelists and Poets and other Arts. Whoever and whatever he is writing of Ricks puts all self-indulgence aside to answer his own questions as to worth and relevance.
A minor cultural overview of the last 'modern' century.
Culled from his best work in journals and newspapers from both sides of the Atlantic Ricks is at his best here working with the reader and forcing him or her to ask 'what can be learnt, why do I enjoy this, could it be better?' Whetheraddressing Norman Mailer, Gerard manley Hopkins or The Beatles Ricks is at the sharp end of LitCrit without being overtly addicted to word play, punning or self conscious biographical intrusions that were too present and marred the major work he wrote on Bob Dylan.
The Book is divided into sections: Lives, Arguments, Critics, Novelists and Poets and other Arts. Whoever and whatever he is writing of Ricks puts all self-indulgence aside to answer his own questions as to worth and relevance.
A minor cultural overview of the last 'modern' century.
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