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Portrait inside my head : essays / Phillip Lopate.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 292 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781451696301 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 814.54 23
Contents:
In defense of the miscellaneous essay collection -- The family romance. Tea at the Plaza ; The camera shop ; The Countess's tutor ; My brother the radio host ; Wife or sister? ; The limits of empathy ; The lake of suffering -- The consolations of daily life. Memoirs of a wishy-washy Left-liberal ; Why I remain a baseball fan ; Novels and films ; On changing one's mind about a movie ; Laws of attraction ; Duration, or, Going long ; Warren Sonbert -- City spaces. Brooklyn the unknowable ; Robert Moses rethought ; City Hall and its park ; Walking the high line ; Getting the South wrong -- Literary matters. "Howl" and me ; The poetry years ; The stubborn art of Charles Reznikoff ; the improbable moralist ; James Agee ; On not reading Thomas Bernhard ; Worldliness and regret -- The life of the mind.
Summary: Presents a collection of essays on a life well-lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.
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Indu Prasad Indu Prasad Gulbanoo Premji Library, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru 3rd Floor IP 814.54 LOP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G16066
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In defense of the miscellaneous essay collection --
The family romance. Tea at the Plaza ; The camera shop ; The Countess's tutor ; My brother the radio host ; Wife or sister? ; The limits of empathy ; The lake of suffering --
The consolations of daily life. Memoirs of a wishy-washy Left-liberal ; Why I remain a baseball fan ; Novels and films ; On changing one's mind about a movie ; Laws of attraction ; Duration, or, Going long ; Warren Sonbert --
City spaces. Brooklyn the unknowable ; Robert Moses rethought ; City Hall and its park ; Walking the high line ; Getting the South wrong --
Literary matters. "Howl" and me ; The poetry years ; The stubborn art of Charles Reznikoff ; the improbable moralist ; James Agee ; On not reading Thomas Bernhard ; Worldliness and regret --
The life of the mind.

Presents a collection of essays on a life well-lived, sharing provocative observations on topics ranging from the challenges of a Brooklyn childhood and the pleasures of baseball to movies and friendship.

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