Critical views
Subtitle: essays on the humanities and the arts
By: editor, Teresa Stojkov
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Townsend papers in the humanities -- v.  IV
Publisher: Regents of the University of California
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780982329436
Subjects: Arts; Humanities
Other titles: Essays on the humanities and the arts
Description: 344 p. : 23 cm
Table of contents: title: Identity against culture / Kwame Anthony Appiah; title: Getting real : the arts in post-NEA America / Peter Sellars; title: Golden ruins/Dark raptures : the literary destruction of Los Angeles / Mike Davis; title: The work of art and the historical future / Arthur Danto; title: Living in fiction and history / Ivan Klima; title: Berlin in autumn : the philosopher in old age / Michael Ignatieff; title: The novel in Africa / J.M. Coetzee; title: From the beginning to the present, and facing the end : the case ofoOne Japanese writer / Kenzaburo; title: Traditions of conversion : Descartes and his demon / Anthony Grafton; title: Cannabis, forgetting, and the botany of desire / Michael Pollan; title: Dialogues. Grounds for remembering / Maya Lin with Thomas Laqueur, Andrew Barshay, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Saitowitz; title: They know everything : children and suffering / Maurice Sendak with Herbert Schreier; title: Sounding lines : the art of translating poetry / Seamus Heaney with Robert Hass; title: Migrations / Sebastião Salgado with Orville Schell.