false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173531852m/300791.jpg 300791 4 <p> With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns, Edward W. Said's writings have transformed the field of literary studies. This long-awaited collection of literary and cultural essays, the first since Harvard University Press published <i>The World, the Text, and the Critic</i> in 1983, reconfirms what no one can doubt--that Said is the most impressive, consequential, and elegant critic of our time--and offers further evidence of how much the fully engaged critical mind can contribute to the reservoir of value, thought, and action essential to our lives and our culture.</p><p> As in the title essay, the widely admired "Reflections on Exile," the fact of his own exile and the fate of the Palestinians have given both form and the force of intimacy to the questions Said has pursued. Taken together, these essays--from the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followers--afford rare insight into the formation of a critic and the development of an intellectual vocation. Said's topics are many and diverse, from the movie heroics of Tarzan to the machismo of Ernest Hemingway to the shades of difference that divide Alexandria and Cairo. He offers major reconsiderations of writers and artists such as George Orwell, Giambattista Vico, Georg Lukacs, R. P. Blackmur, E. M. Cioran, Naguib Mahfouz, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Walter Lippman, Samuel Huntington, Antonio Gramsci, and Raymond Williams. Invigorating, edifying, acutely attentive to the vying pressures of personal and historical experience, his book is a source of immeasurable intellectual delight. </p> 291860 2001 Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Convergences: Inventories of the Present) total:79|5:38|4:34|3:7|2:0|1:0| 79 347 149 5 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Tue Oct 27 10:43:35 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 10:44:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 30 07:28:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 07:28:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jul 23 13:01:20 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 13:12:03 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Mar 13 09:08:30 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 09:09:16 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed May 09 06:08:25 -0700 2007 Fri May 11 17:20:20 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 11:03:33 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 11:03:33 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 23 01:19:07 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 23 01:19:07 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Nov 20 21:12:29 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 21:12:29 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Nov 14 04:55:21 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 04:55:21 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 17:32:12 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 17:32:12 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 14:33:56 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:34:02 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 14:03:29 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:03:31 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 05:19:48 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 05:19:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 20:06:14 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:06:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 20 17:00:47 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:00:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 12 23:43:57 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 12 23:43:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Sep 09 14:34:26 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 14:34:26 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 21 15:04:20 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 15:04:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 05 01:01:44 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 01:01:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jul 27 13:46:59 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 13:46:59 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=300791