Moderns worth keeping
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Author
Publication
2005 - Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
48,750 words, Guess
Page Count
195 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3422263M
- ISBN-100765802848
- OCLC Control Number1004024759
- OCLC Control Number58843243
- OCLC Control Numbermodernsworthkeep0000fras
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2005043700
Classifications
- DDC809/.04
- LCCPN771 .F735 2005
- DDCB
Description
"In this new volume, Russell Fraser assembles fourteen twentieth-century writers he judges "worth keeping." All were famous in their time, but many outlived it, enduring an eclipse that Fraser intends this book to dispel. Each of the authors differs in background and in the kinds of writing practiced, and while together they do not constitute a modern canon, Fraser persuasively presents them as a group distinguished by a more than ordinary affiliation for language." "The world was livelier for these writers' presence, and what they left us still gives satisfaction. This heterogeneous group may be said to be our saving remnant. In a time of coarsened feeling, its members possess in high degree the ability to discriminate, seeing acutely, and inspiring feeling where it was dead. Their function is therapeutic, even restorative for the life of letters. To give them a hearing is the principal purpose of the book."--Jacket.
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Genres
- Biography.
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