Mary Cappello

Buffalo Trace

A Threefold Vibration

Buch

At a time when the university humanities are under siege, this heady, fascinating trio of novella-length autobiographical accounts of grad school literary studies is an absolute treat: bracingly honest, self-aware, witty, probing, exquisitely written, lucid and humane. What's been missing in most current memoirs is the subjects' intellectual growth, alongside their traumas or sexual adventures. This book has it both ways: the romance of learning and pedagogy merging with an education in eros. Its mixture of enchantment and rue feels just right. It should be read by every graduate student, every professor teaching in grad school, and everyone… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Morrison, James / Walton, Jean

ISBN: 978-1-947980-16-7
EAN: 9781947980167
Produktnummer: 27172684
Verlag: Spuyten Duyvil
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 411 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 411

Über den Autor

Mary Cappello is the author of Night Bloom; Awkward: A Detour (a Los Angeles Times Bestseller); Called Back; Swallow, based on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection in Philadelphia's Mütter Museum; and, Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction and a 2015 Berlin Prize. marycappello.com James Morrison is the author of Broken Fever, The Lost Girl, Everyday Ghosts, and several nonfiction books on film. His collection of stories, Said and Done, was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in 2010. He teaches film and literature at Claremont McKenna College and lives in Los Angeles. Jean Walton is the author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference as well as essays on film, modernism, and culture in Critical Inquiry, differences, Discourse, and Hotel Amerika. Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters who Fought them in 1970s Vancouver appeared with New Star Books in 2018.