Literary Awakenings: Personal Essays from the Hudson Review - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815634870 ISBN 13: 9780815634874

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2017

Synopsis

During the past thirty years, the editors of the Hudson Review have observed a trend among some of the best literary essayists and reviewers to situate their criticism in a deeply personal manner as opposed to the theoretical, technocratic work being produced in many literary and academic publications. Over time, the Hudson Review became a home for this kind of accessible, memoirist
writing. Literary Awakenings collects eighteen essays published over the last three decades that celebrate the writer’s relationship with literature, one that is deeply shaped by experience and remembrance.
The essays gathered here recall disparate awakenings to the influence of literature and discoveries of the many ways in which it enriches nearly every aspect of our lives. Antonio Muñoz Molina describes his education as a writer and a citizen as a form of protest against Franco’s totalitarian regime in Spain. Drawing upon Huckleberry Finn, Wendell Berry meditates on the impulse to escape that literature often invokes, and Judith Pascoe’s tribute to Clarissa confesses to the appeal of reading select literature that initiates one into an exclusive coterie of people. What unites these diverse contributions is the joy of appreciation, the pleasures of engaging with literature.

About this title

Book Description

A collection of deeply personal essays musing on literature from the Hudson Review.

About the Author

Ronald Koury has been managing editor of the Hudson Review since 1985.

Edition details

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0815634870
• ISBN 13: 9780815634874
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Koury Ronald