Perry Meisel
Auteur de The Cowboy and the Dandy: Crossing Over from Romanticism to Rock and Roll
A propos de l'auteur
Perry Meisel is Professor of English at New York University. His books include The Myth of the Modern (1987), The Cowboy and the Dandy (1999), and The Literary Freud (2007). He has also written widely for publications that include The Village Voice, The New York Times, Partisan Review, and October.
Œuvres de Perry Meisel
The Myth of the Modern: A Study in British Literature and Criticism after 1850 (1987) 10 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey, 1924-1925 (1985) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 68 exemplaires
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- Sexe
- male
- Professions
- professor
- Organisations
- New York University
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Critiques
The cowboy and the dandy : crossing over from… par Perry Meisel
Brilliant arguments in this book, but it reads much like someone's senior thesis. Only... 100x better. This is an academic work (citations galore!); Meisel's writing is nonetheless lyrical, evocative, animated, and moving. He writes about jazz with the cadence of bebop; his chapter on Virginia Woolf is dreamy and atmospheric while sharply observed. The richness and density of the material means this isn't an easy book to get through, but it's worth it for the myriad tangents it will make you want to follow.… (plus d'informations)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 6
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 47
- Popularité
- #330,643
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 19