How literature saved my life

Prologue -- Negotiating against myself -- Love is a long, close scrutiny -- Why is the human animal so sad? -- Our ground time here will be brief -- The wound and the bow -- All great books wind up with the writer getting his teeth bashed in -- Life v. art -- How literature saved my life. Blends cri...

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1. Verfasser:	Shields, David (VerfasserIn)
Format:	UnknownFormat
Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York, NY u.a. Vintage books 2013
Ausgabe:	1. Vintage books ed.
Schlagworte:	Shields, David > Books and reading > Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) > Literature > Philosophy > Mortality in literature > Criticism > Shields, David 1956- / Books and reading / Shields, David 1956- > Literatur > Autobiografie > USA > Sterblichkeit
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Zusammenfassung:	Prologue -- Negotiating against myself -- Love is a long, close scrutiny -- Why is the human animal so sad? -- Our ground time here will be brief -- The wound and the bow -- All great books wind up with the writer getting his teeth bashed in -- Life v. art -- How literature saved my life. Blends criticism, anthropology, and biography to celebrate the power of literature, concluding that the fundamental truths found in literature render it an essential component of life
Beschreibung:	A Borzoi book
Beschreibung:	207 S. Ill.
ISBN:	9780307961525 978-0-307-96152-5 9780307802729 978-0-307-80272-9 9780345802729 978-0-345-80272-9