Contributions

  • Kinney, Arthur F., 1933- - Contributor

Publication

1997 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

114,250 words, Guess

Page Count

457 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL803073M
  • ISBN-100820318191
  • OCLC Control Number33333988
  • Library of Congress Control Number95039534
  • Goodreads2089667

Classifications

  • DDC809
  • LCCPR423 .H37 1997

Alternate Titles

  • Poetics & praxis, understanding & imagination

Description

Whether O.B. Hardison Jr. (1929-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's play, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. As Arthur F. Kinney notes in his preface, they all bear hallmarks of Hardison's style: his intensity and acuity of thought, his concreteness, his grounding of the present and future in the past, his easy melding of analytic and expository conventions, and his intercultural perspective.

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