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The world within the word : essays / by William H. Gass.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: İngilizce Series: A Borzoi bookPublisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1978Edition: First editionDescription: 341 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0394408098
  • 9780394408095
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN511 .G3772 1978
Contents:
The doomed in their sinking -- Malcolm Lowry -- Wisconsin death trip -- Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner -- Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence -- Three photos of Colette -- Proust at 100 -- Paul Valéry -- Sartre on theater -- Upright among staring fish -- The anatomy of mind -- Food and beast language -- Groping for trouts -- Carrots, noses, snow, rose, roses -- The ontology of the sentence, or How to make a world of words.
Summary: "In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life ... [Gass] examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, 'art and order,' and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction"--From GoodReads website, viewed December 19, 2023.
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Book Book Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon / Main Collection Tıp Fakültesi Medikal Kütüphane Genel Koleksiyon PN511 .G3772 1978 TıpFaK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Ödünç Verilemez-Kurumiçi kullanım / Not for loan-For inhouse use Donated by Prof. Dr. Şükrü Cin TF02918

"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

The doomed in their sinking -- Malcolm Lowry -- Wisconsin death trip -- Mr. Blotner, Mr. Feaster, and Mr. Faulkner -- Gertrude Stein and the geography of the sentence -- Three photos of Colette -- Proust at 100 -- Paul Valéry -- Sartre on theater -- Upright among staring fish -- The anatomy of mind -- Food and beast language -- Groping for trouts -- Carrots, noses, snow, rose, roses -- The ontology of the sentence, or How to make a world of words.

"In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life ... [Gass] examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, 'art and order,' and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction"--From GoodReads website, viewed December 19, 2023.

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