Book Description
Featuring a newly made-up genre, the alphabet essay, this book examines the lives and works of 10 writers. Using the alphabet ("A is for..." to "Z is for...") as the structure for the analysis, these essays explore the history and culture, private and intimate lives, anxieties, and achievements of each writer. The form is redolent of childhood, but the content is remote from childish things. The worlds of Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake, Duke Ellington, Sigmund Freud, the Harlem Renaissance, Paul Klee, and Andy Warhol are among those surveyed in an approach that imposes some wonderful juxtapositions and elicits delicious ironies.
About the Author
Kevin Jackson is the author of Language of Cinema. A former associate arts editor of The Independent, he is currently its Sunday film critic and a freelance writer, broadcaster, and lecturer.
Letters of Introduction FROM THE PUBLISHER
"In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay, providing a playful A to Z of cultural heroes and legends, from William Blake to Marguerite Yourcenar, from Albion to Zen." Here, Kevin Jackson promises, we will encounter not only the twelve invited guests at this alphabetical feast, but also 'at least a dozen z-words and z-names seldom if ever gathered together between the same covers: Zorn, Zodiac, Zoas, Zelter, Zarathustra, Zweig, Zurn, Ziegfield, 'Zweet Zurzday', Zurich...'.
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