Gravity and Grace: Essays for Roger Pearson Contributor(s): Louth, Charlie (Editor), McGuinness, Patrick (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178188787X ISBN-13: 9781781887875 Publisher: Legenda OUR PRICE: $104.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - French - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
Dewey: 840.9 |
LCCN: 2018276128 |
Series: Legenda |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.28 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Gravity and grace are spiritual terms, but they can also offer us a way to think about literature. Grace may mean not only the felicity and ease - what Schiller refers to as the 'mobile beauty' - inhabiting certain works of art, but also the sense of something given, or about to be given, by a work as we read it: something incalculable, perhaps accidental, but vital and regenerative. Like a promise, this quality also needs gravity, a sense of substance within it. The gracefulness of a dancer relies upon gravity, and the grace of a text depends on the weight of words. These matters are pursued here in essays on subjects ranging from Voltaire to Ali Smith, from Baudelaire to Beckett, not forgetting Mallarm , and offered to Roger Pearson in honour of the grace and gravity of his own writing. |