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- catalog abstract "In this coherent, intense study, Naomi Lebowitz defines and explores what she calls "the philosophy of literary amateurism." With persuasive readings of the works of major international writers of the Western tradition, Lebowitz passionately argues that all great writing is guided by a moral and temperamental complexity and richness. Lebowitz defines literary amateurism as an attitude of anti-professionalism that allows a writer to engage and represent experience with a vulnerable subtlety and imagination. Citing Montaigne as the father of this philosophy, Lebowitz uncovers the moral implications of aesthetic postures in those who have used his patterns - Emerson, Balzac, Dickens, Henry James, Conrad, William James, Santayana, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, and Italo Svevo - comparing their work to that of more self-consciously professional writers, wary of seductive adulterations of art by life, like Flaubert, Taine, Rousseau, and Proust. In a hyper-professional age of criticism marked by formulaic and political diction and syntax, Lebowitz tries to recover the amateur perspective naturally carried by great literature's form and play. The Philosophy of Literary Amateurism makes a lasting contribution to the recovery of more generous relations between life and literature.".
- catalog contributor b6523848.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "1. Body, Book, and Candle -- 2. Temperament with a Tongue: The American Education of the Possible Poet by the Possible Philosopher -- William James, George Santayana, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost -- 3. The Imagination of Morality: James, Conrad, and the Lessons of the French Masters -- 4. The Purgatory of Plot: Rousseau and Balzac -- 5. The Doctor in Spite of Himself: The Prescriptions of Zeno.".
- catalog description "In a hyper-professional age of criticism marked by formulaic and political diction and syntax, Lebowitz tries to recover the amateur perspective naturally carried by great literature's form and play. The Philosophy of Literary Amateurism makes a lasting contribution to the recovery of more generous relations between life and literature.".
- catalog description "In this coherent, intense study, Naomi Lebowitz defines and explores what she calls "the philosophy of literary amateurism." With persuasive readings of the works of major international writers of the Western tradition, Lebowitz passionately argues that all great writing is guided by a moral and temperamental complexity and richness.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-121) and index.".
- catalog description "Lebowitz defines literary amateurism as an attitude of anti-professionalism that allows a writer to engage and represent experience with a vulnerable subtlety and imagination. Citing Montaigne as the father of this philosophy, Lebowitz uncovers the moral implications of aesthetic postures in those who have used his patterns - Emerson, Balzac, Dickens, Henry James, Conrad, William James, Santayana, Wallace Stevens, Virginia Woolf, and Italo Svevo - comparing their work to that of more self-consciously professional writers, wary of seductive adulterations of art by life, like Flaubert, Taine, Rousseau, and Proust.".
- catalog extent "129 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Philosophy of literary amateurism.".
- catalog identifier "082620970X".
- catalog isFormatOf "Philosophy of literary amateurism.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbia : University of Missouri Press,".
- catalog relation "Philosophy of literary amateurism.".
- catalog subject "809 20".
- catalog subject "Amateurism.".
- catalog subject "Authors and readers.".
- catalog subject "Literature, Modern History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PN701 .L43 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Body, Book, and Candle -- 2. Temperament with a Tongue: The American Education of the Possible Poet by the Possible Philosopher -- William James, George Santayana, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost -- 3. The Imagination of Morality: James, Conrad, and the Lessons of the French Masters -- 4. The Purgatory of Plot: Rousseau and Balzac -- 5. The Doctor in Spite of Himself: The Prescriptions of Zeno.".
- catalog title "The philosophy of literary amateurism / Naomi Lebowitz.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".