Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas

by Adam Kirsch

Book Overview

Adam Kirsch has been described as "elegant and astute... a] critic of the very first order" (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times). In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039324346X
• ISBN13: 9780393243468
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"