Standing by Words: Essays - Softcover

Berry, Wendell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593760558 ISBN 13: 9781593760557

Publisher: Counterpoint, 2005

Synopsis

In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry considers the degeneration of language that is manifest throughout our culture, from poetry to politics, from conversation to advertising, and he shows how the ever-widening cleft between the words and their referents mirrors the increasing isolation of individuals and their communities from the land.

"This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un-glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating―and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality." ―Kirkus Reviews

About this title

About the Author:

A native Kentuckian, Wendell Berry lived and taught in New York and California before returning permanently to the Kentucky River region, where he farms on 125 acres in Henry County.

Review:

"This skillfully conceived book is one of the strongest contemporary arguments for literary tradition: a challenging credo, un-glib, calmly assured, clearly illuminating -- and required reading for those seriously interested in the interplay between literature, ethics, and morality." -- Kirkus Reviews

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593760558
• ISBN 13: 9781593760557
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224