A01=Roger Shattuck
Author_Roger Shattuck
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393321111
- Weight: 548g
- Dimensions: 140 x 211mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2001
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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With incisive analysis, he elucidates the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component, and, faced with an academic world shattered by theory, laments how extra-literary politics have grown increasingly dominant, now attempting to eliminate the very category of literature. Whether commenting on Foucault, Pulp Fiction, Georgia O'Keeffe, V.S. Naipaul, or the survival of a core tradition in the humanities, Shattuck presents a stirring synthesis of the principles and values by which we can live together as a nation finally at peace with its diversity. A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a TLS Notable Book of 1999.
Roger Shattuck, author of Forbidden Knowledge and Proust's Way, has won the National Book Award. He lives in Vermont.
