In Serious Noticing, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book The Nearest Thing to Life and recent essays from The New Yorker on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium.

In Serious Noticing, Wood collects his best essays from two decades of his career, supplementing earlier work with autobiographical reflections from his book The Nearest Thing to Life and recent essays from The New Yorker on young writers of extraordinary promise. The result is an essential guide to literature in the new millennium.

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville James Wood is one of the leading critics of the age, and here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-d...(展开全部)

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works 'James Wood is a close reader of genius... By turns luscious and muscular, committed and disdaining, passionate and minutely considered' John Banville James Wood is one of the leading critics of the age, and here, for the first time, are his selected essays. From the career-d...(展开全部)

当代重要文学批评家詹姆斯·伍德新作+精选集 二十余年文章精华一网打尽 展现当今世界文学评论的深度和广度 ……………… 著名文学评论家詹姆斯·伍德的新作+精选合集，二十余年文章精华一网打尽。 自詹姆斯•伍德出版第一本批评文集《破格》（1999）开始，他就被认为是英语文学批评界的领军者。他既评判那些殿堂级经典作家（福楼拜、陀思妥耶夫斯基），臧否晚近的重要作家（赫拉巴尔、塞巴尔德），也评点重 要的当代作家（埃莱娜•费兰特、海伦•加纳）。他建立起了一套富有智识又犀利精准的批评标准，并将这套标准用自成一格的文章呈现出来。 伍德选取了以往的得意之作，又新收入了一批精湛作品构成本书，并通过巧妙编排，使相邻的两篇往往能够相互映照。本书可以代表伍德文学评论的最高水平。经过二十多年的文学评论写作，伍德评论的版图已经拓展至柏林、意大利、巴尔干半岛、澳大利亚……评论的深度与...(展开全部)

当代重要文学批评家詹姆斯·伍德新作+精选集 二十余年文章精华一网打尽 展现当今世界文学评论的深度和广度 ……………… 著名文学评论家詹姆斯·伍德的新作+精选合集，二十余年文章精华一网打尽。 自詹姆斯•伍德出版第一本批评文集《破格》（1999）开始，他就被认为是英语文学批评界的领军者。他既评判那些殿堂级经典作家（福楼拜、陀思妥耶夫斯基），臧否晚近的重要作家（赫拉巴尔、塞巴尔德），也评点重 要的当代作家（埃莱娜•费兰特、海伦•加纳）。他建立起了一套富有智识又犀利精准的批评标准，并将这套标准用自成一格的文章呈现出来。 伍德选取了以往的得意之作，又新收入了一批精湛作品构成本书，并通过巧妙编排，使相邻的两篇往往能够相互映照。本书可以代表伍德文学评论的最高水平。经过二十多年的文学评论写作，伍德评论的版图已经拓展至柏林、意大利、巴尔干半岛、澳大利亚……评论的深度与...(展开全部)

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.” So begins Upstream, a collection of essays in which revered poet Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness, as a young child and as an adult, to lose herself within...(展开全部)

In the last forty years, action theory has revitalized moral philosophy. Philosophers have explored the nature of agency, what is involved in acting for a reason, how we know what we are doing, the role of intention, desire, and belief in motivating action, and more. At their most ambitious, philosophers have claimed that action theory is the foundation of ethics. For rationali...(展开全部)

'Genius . . . bringing ardent intelligence to bear upon poetry, politics and autobiography' Seamus Heaney Essayist and poet Joseph Brodsky was one of the most penetrating voices of the twentieth century. This prize-winning collection of his diverse essays includes uniquely powerful appreciations of great writers: on Dostoevsky and the development of Russian prose, on Auden and ...(展开全部)

This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre writers. His insights into the works of Dostoyevsky, Mandelstam, Platonov, as well as non-Russian poets Auden, Cavafy and Montale are brilliant. While the Western popularity of many other Third Wavers has been stunted by thei...(展开全部)