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• catalog abstract ""Marguerite Young is best known as the author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, a 1200-page novel published to great critical acclaim in 1965 and since then considered a landmark of contemporary American literature. But she is also an enchanting essayist and a perceptive critic, and Inviting the Muses gathers all her shorter prose writings, most of which are unknown even to her admirers." "Three short stories (one previously unpublished) are followed by essays and reviews on a wide variety of topics: the Midwest in which Young grew up, writers she admires, the act of writing itself, dolls, horses, deaf-mutes, Mormons (Young is a descendant of Brigham Young), and always the primacy of the imagination in all human endeavors." "Young celebrates "complex life and complex letters" (the title of one of the essays), avoiding the commonplace to seek out the mysterious unities that bind disparate activities. Her style mixes elegance with whimsy, wisdom with wit, and her attitude alternates between wonder for life in all its bizarre variety and impatience with those blind to that variety. Inviting the Muses reconfirms Young's eminence as a grande dame of American letters."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog contributor b6391083.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description ""Marguerite Young is best known as the author of Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, a 1200-page novel published to great critical acclaim in 1965 and since then considered a landmark of contemporary American literature. But she is also an enchanting essayist and a perceptive critic, and Inviting the Muses gathers all her shorter prose writings, most of which are unknown even to her admirers." "Three short stories (one previously unpublished) are followed by essays and reviews on a wide variety of topics: the Midwest in which Young grew up, writers she admires, the act of writing itself, dolls, horses, deaf-mutes, Mormons (Young is a descendant of Brigham Young), and always the primacy of the imagination in all human endeavors." "Young celebrates "complex life and complex letters" (the title of one of the essays), avoiding the commonplace to seek out the mysterious unities that bind disparate activities. Her style mixes elegance with whimsy, wisdom with wit, and her attitude alternates between wonder for life in all its bizarre variety and impatience with those blind to that variety. Inviting the Muses reconfirms Young's eminence as a grande dame of American letters."--BOOK JACKET.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "My Grandmother's Foot -- The Dead Women -- Old James -- The Midwest of Everywhere -- Complex Life and Complex Letters -- An Afternoon with Marianne Moore -- Mari Sandoz -- Horse Utopia -- The Doll People -- The Old Sweetheart -- The World of Silence -- Inviting the Muses -- The Artist as Wanderer -- The Theistic Mysticism of Young's Night Thoughts -- Coventry Patmore's Theory of Knowledge -- Memorial Speech in Honor of Mark Van Doren -- Feminine Sensibility -- On Teaching -- Domestic Fables -- Leaning Backward -- Uncertain Measures -- The Dusty Interiors of Boston -- Fictions Mystical and Epical -- Behind the Legend of Caruso -- A Poet's Last Hours on Earth -- Our Person Our World -- The Anarchic Principle -- Excursus on War -- Plumbing the Irrational -- Comfort's Work -- Joseph Smith, Mormon Prophet -- Metaphysical Fiction -- To Be or Not -- An Indiana Book -- Tiger Lilies -- Comedy in a Tragic Show -- The Darkest Part of Africa -- The "Endless House": A Man-built Cosmos -- Anais Nin.".
• catalog description "The Great Detective -- Defending an Injured Reputation.".
• catalog extent "246 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "1564780538 (cloth) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press,".
• catalog subject "813/.52 20".
• catalog subject "PS3547.O49 I56 1994".
• catalog tableOfContents "My Grandmother's Foot -- The Dead Women -- Old James -- The Midwest of Everywhere -- Complex Life and Complex Letters -- An Afternoon with Marianne Moore -- Mari Sandoz -- Horse Utopia -- The Doll People -- The Old Sweetheart -- The World of Silence -- Inviting the Muses -- The Artist as Wanderer -- The Theistic Mysticism of Young's Night Thoughts -- Coventry Patmore's Theory of Knowledge -- Memorial Speech in Honor of Mark Van Doren -- Feminine Sensibility -- On Teaching -- Domestic Fables -- Leaning Backward -- Uncertain Measures -- The Dusty Interiors of Boston -- Fictions Mystical and Epical -- Behind the Legend of Caruso -- A Poet's Last Hours on Earth -- Our Person Our World -- The Anarchic Principle -- Excursus on War -- Plumbing the Irrational -- Comfort's Work -- Joseph Smith, Mormon Prophet -- Metaphysical Fiction -- To Be or Not -- An Indiana Book -- Tiger Lilies -- Comedy in a Tragic Show -- The Darkest Part of Africa -- The "Endless House": A Man-built Cosmos -- Anais Nin.".
• catalog tableOfContents "The Great Detective -- Defending an Injured Reputation.".
• catalog title "Inviting the muses : stories, essays, reviews / Marguerite Young.".
• catalog type "text".