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Guy Davenport

The Guy Davenport Reader

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The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all else a difference of imagination.The imagination is like the drunk man who has lost his watch, and must get drunk again to find it. It is as intimate as speech and custom, and to trace its ways we need to re-educate our eyes.”-Guy DavenportModernism spawned the greatest explosion of art, architecture, literature, painting, music, and dance of any era s… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-61902-252-2
  • EAN: 9781619022522
  • Produktnummer: 21841813
  • Verlag: Catapult
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 400 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 955 KB

Über den Autor


Guy Davenport was a writer, illustrator, teacher, and scholar. He is best known for his modernist-style short stories, but his range of works is wide, spanning poetry, translation, and criticism. He was a professor of English for three decades, having taught at Haverford College and the University of Kentucky.Erik Reece, himself a student of Davenport and now his literary executor, is also the author of Lost Mountain, An American Gospel and Field Work.

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