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Overview
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 essaysfrom the famous to those that will surprise even Said's most assiduous followersafford 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780674009974 |
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Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
Publication date: | 11/30/2002 |
Series: | Convergences: Inventories of the Present , #26 |
Edition description: | Revised ed. |
Pages: | 656 |
Sales rank: | 693,775 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.55(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Labyrinth of Incarnations: The Essays of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
2. Sense and Sensibility
On R. P. Blackmur, Georges Poulet, and E. D. Hirsc
3. Amateur of the Insoluble
On E. M. Cioran
4. A Standing Civil War
On T. E. Lawrence
5. Arabic Prose and Prose Fiction after 1948
6. Between Chance and Determinism: Lukàcs's Aesthetik
7. Conrad and Nietzsche
8. Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts
9. Tourism among the Dogs
On George Orwell
10. Bitter Dispatches from the Third World
11. Grey Eminence
On Walter Lippmann
12. Among the Believers
On V. S. Naipaul
13. Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community
14. Bursts of Meaning
On John Berger and Jean Mohr
15. Egyptian Rites
16. The Future of Criticism
17. Reflections on Exile
18. Michel Foucault, 1927-1984
19. Orientalism Reconsidered
20. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art
On Glenn Gould
21. How Not to Get Gored
On Ernest Hemingway
22. Foucault and the Imagination of Power
23. The Horizon of R. P. Blackmur
24. Cairo Recalled: Growing Up in the Cultural Crosscurrents of 1940s Egypt
25. Through Gringo Eyes: With Conrad in Latin America
26. The Quest for Gillo Pontecorv
27. Representing the Colonized: Anthropology's Interlocutors
28. After Mahfouz
29. Jungle Calling
On Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan
30. Cairo and Alexandria
31. Homage to a Belly-Dancer
On Tahia Carioca
32. Introduction to Moby-Dick
33. The Politics of Knowledge
34. Identity, Authority, and Freedom: The Potentate and the Traveler
35. The Anglo-Arab Encounter
On Ahdaf Soueif
36. Nationalism, Human Rights, and Interpretation
37. Traveling Theory Reconsidered
38. History, Literature, and Geography
39. Contra Mundum
On Eric Hobsbawm
40. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift
41. Fantasy's Role in the Making of Nations
On Jacqueline Rose
42. On Defiance and Taking Positions
43. From Silence to Sound and Back Again: Music, Literature, and History
44. On Lost Causes
45. Between Worlds
46. The Clash of Definitions
On Samuel Huntington
Notes
Credits
Index