American audacity
Subtitle: in defense of literary daring
By: William Giraldi
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9781631493904
Subjects: Critics; American fiction; History and criticism; National characteristics in literature; American Authors
Work titles: Essays
Description: "Over the last decade William Giraldi has established himself as a charismatic and uncompromising literary essayist. American Audacity gathers Giraldi's fierce and witty considerations of American writers and themes, including a never-before-published appreciation of James Baldwin and an introductory call to arms for twenty-first-century American literature. With deep seeing and enormous learning, Giraldi considers giants from the past (Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harper Lee), some of our great living critics and novelists (Harold Bloom, Cynthia Ozick, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer), and those cultural-literary themes that have concerned him as a novelist (best-selling books, the problem of Catholic fiction, and his viral essay on bibliophilia). Demanding that literature be urgent and audacious, this book is itself an act of intellectual and stylistic daring. At a time when literature is threatened by ceaseless electronic distraction, Giraldi reaffirms the pleasure and wisdom of literary values"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: American moments; title: American critics; title: American stories.