Sweet lechery
Subtitle: reviews, essays, & profiles
By: Jeet Heer
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Erin, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780889843783
Subjects: Literature and society
Description: Sweet Lechery is Jeet Heer's wide-ranging collection of literary criticism, served with a twist of social commentary. -- Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Culture at large; title: Philip Roth as Ghost writer; title: John Maynard Keynes and the sexuality of economics; title: Forging Van Gogh; title: Oedipus updike; title: Updike: Portrait of the artist as a young fan; title: Guy Davenport, cartoonist; title: Guy Davenport, RIP; title: Gail Singer's Watching movies; title: Elizabeth Kobert's Sixth Extinction; title: Jesus and recycling; title: Canadian Culture; title: Alice Munro as a literary entrepreneur; title: Clark Blaise's Southern Stories; title: Lean Rooke's Last Shot; title: John Metcalf's literary wars; title: Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy; title: Shoah business: Yann Martel's Holocaust novel; title: Lisa Moore's Caught; title: Annabel Lyon's Sweet Girl; title: Zsuzsi Gartner, The anti-munro; title: Cannibalistic CanLit; title: Vegetable sex; title: Smut and literature; title: The Messiah is the message: McLuhan's religion; title: Hugh Kenner, RIP; title: Right-Wing politics; title: The philosopher: Leo Strauss; title: Addendum to Strauss: the classics and the closet; title: Hilton Kramer: A dissenting obituary; title: Joseph Epstein: Nostalgia for Empire and the closet; title: Tory stories: Neo-con novels; title: Rob Ford and Rexdale; title: Science Fiction; title: Robert Heinlein: Abandoning the future; title: Philip K. Dick versus the literary critics; title: Stanislaw Lem's communication failure; title: Comics; title: Little Nemo; title: Francoise Mouly at The New Yorker; title: Ben Katchor's Urban Poetry; title: Chris Ware's Building Stories; title: Seth's imaginary library.