Shirley Hazzard
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
Selected Essays
Herausgeber: Olubas, Brigitta
Shirley Hazzard
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
Selected Essays
Herausgeber: Olubas, Brigitta
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This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despiteâ or maybe because ofâ the world's disheartening realities.
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This collection of Shirley Hazzard's nonfiction works spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s confirms her influence on world literature and her place among writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despiteâ or maybe because ofâ the world's disheartening realities.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 199mm x 133mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 314g
- ISBN-13: 9780231173278
- ISBN-10: 023117327X
- Artikelnr.: 48096687
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Seitenzahl: 248
- Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2018
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 199mm x 133mm x 17mm
- Gewicht: 314g
- ISBN-13: 9780231173278
- ISBN-10: 023117327X
- Artikelnr.: 48096687
Shirley Hazzard and Brigitta Olubas
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta
Olubas
Part I. Through Literature Itself
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
The Lonely Word
Part II. The Expressive Word
A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The
Public Image
Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet
The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di
Napoli
The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The
Eye of the Storm
Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent
Women
Translating Proust
Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide
Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude
William Maxwell
Part III. Public Themes
The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate
"Gulag" and the Men of Peace
The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church
The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless
UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle
A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age
Part IV. The Great Occasion
Canton More Far
Papyrology at Naples
The Tuscan in Each of Us
Part V. Last Words
2003 National Book Award Acceptance
The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012
Notes
Index
Introduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta
Olubas
Part I. Through Literature Itself
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
The Lonely Word
Part II. The Expressive Word
A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The
Public Image
Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet
The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di
Napoli
The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The
Eye of the Storm
Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent
Women
Translating Proust
Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide
Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude
William Maxwell
Part III. Public Themes
The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate
"Gulag" and the Men of Peace
The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church
The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless
UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle
A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age
Part IV. The Great Occasion
Canton More Far
Papyrology at Naples
The Tuscan in Each of Us
Part V. Last Words
2003 National Book Award Acceptance
The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta
Olubas
Part I. Through Literature Itself
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
The Lonely Word
Part II. The Expressive Word
A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The
Public Image
Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet
The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di
Napoli
The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The
Eye of the Storm
Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent
Women
Translating Proust
Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide
Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude
William Maxwell
Part III. Public Themes
The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate
"Gulag" and the Men of Peace
The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church
The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless
UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle
A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age
Part IV. The Great Occasion
Canton More Far
Papyrology at Naples
The Tuscan in Each of Us
Part V. Last Words
2003 National Book Award Acceptance
The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012
Notes
Index
Introduction: Shirley Hazzard—Author, Amateur, Intellectual, by Brigitta
Olubas
Part I. Through Literature Itself
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think
The Lonely Word
Part II. The Expressive Word
A Mind Like a Blade: Review of Muriel Spark, Collected Stories I and The
Public Image
Review of Jean Rhys, Quartet
The Lasting Sickness of Naples: Review of Matilde Serao, Il Ventre di
Napoli
The New Novel by the New Nobel Prize Winner: Review of Patrick White, The
Eye of the Storm
Ordinary People: Review of Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn and Excellent
Women
Translating Proust
Introduction to Geoffrey Scott's The Portrait of Zélide
Introduction to Iris Origo's Leopardi: A Study in Solitude
William Maxwell
Part III. Public Themes
The Patron Saint of the UN is Pontius Pilate
"Gulag" and the Men of Peace
The United Nations: Where Governments Go to Church
The League of Frightened Men: Why the UN is So Useless
UNhelpful: Waldheim's Latest Debacle
A Writer's Reflections on the Nuclear Age
Part IV. The Great Occasion
Canton More Far
Papyrology at Naples
The Tuscan in Each of Us
Part V. Last Words
2003 National Book Award Acceptance
The New York Society Library Discussion, September 2012
Notes
Index