www.doorway.ru: The Geography of the Imagination () by Davenport, Guy and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. · The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays. ( ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. Nonpareil Book, English. By (author) Guy Davenport. Share. Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the 20th century/5(). THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION contains forty essays, most of them essays on literature, principally poets and poetry. Davenport displays vast erudition, and he does so gracefully. He is particularly adept at seeing and articulating connections among far-flung strands of human intellectual and artistic www.doorway.ru by:
The Geography of the Imagination | Forty essays on history, art, and literature from one of the most incisive, and most exhilarating, critical minds of the 20th century. In this collection, Guy Davenport serves as the reader's guide through history and literature, pointing out the values and avenues of thought that have shaped our ideas and our thinking. Geography Of The Imagination: Davenport, Guy: Books - www.doorway.ru Skip to main www.doorway.ru Hello Select your address Books Hello, Sign in. Account Lists Account Returns Orders. Cart All. Best Sellers Prime. The geography of the imagination by Guy Davenport, , North Point Press edition, in English.
Praise for The Geography of the Imagination. There is no way to prepare yourself for reading Guy Davenport. You stand in awe before his knowledge of the archaic and his knowledge of the modern. Even more, you stand in awe of the connections he can make between the archaic and the modern; he makes the remote familiar and the familiar fundamental. When Davenport writes about writers, the result has the quality of a madman's mosaic, a Watts tower of literary observation."The Geography of the Imagination," which lends its title to this collection, relates the Dogon trickster legends of West Africa to Brer Rabbit, to an essay on furniture by Poe, to Oswald Spengler's "Decline of the West" (seen in terms of World War I and the first three stories in Joyce's "The Dubliners"), to the Persephone myth (and its realization in a bit of O. Henry. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION contains forty essays, most of them essays on literature, principally poets and poetry. Davenport displays vast erudition, and he does so gracefully. He is particularly adept at seeing and articulating connections among far-flung strands of human intellectual and artistic endeavor.
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