Exploring the Palace of the Peacock - Essays on Wilson Harris. Edited by Irving Adler. Foreword by Janet Jagan.

[Harris, Wilson] Adler, Joyce Sparer / Adler, Irving (Editor).

ISBN 10: 9766401403 / ISBN 13: 9789766401405

Published by Jamaica / Barbados / Trinidad & Tobago, University of The West Indies Press., 2003

About this Item

15 cm x 22 cm. XLI, 106 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and signed by the editor Irving Adler to Ann Malamud on endpaper. Includes an autobiographical essay on Wilson Harris and chapters such as: Melville and Harris: Poetic Imaginations Related to Their Response to the Modern World / The Evolution of Female Figures and Imagery in Wilson Harris's Novels etc. Sir Theodore Wilson Harris (24 March 1921 8 March 2018) was a Guyanese writer. He initially wrote poetry, but subsequently became a well-known novelist and essayist. His writing style is often said to be abstract and densely metaphorical, and his subject matter wide-ranging. Harris is considered one of the most original and innovative voices in postwar literature in English. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Exploring the Palace of the Peacock - Essays on Wilson Harris. Edited by Irving Adler. Foreword by Janet Jagan.
• Publisher: Jamaica / Barbados / Trinidad & Tobago, University of The West Indies Press.
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9766401403
• ISBN 13: 9789766401405
• Binding: Soft cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Varia

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Synopsis

The essays in this book are valued for their profound insights. They were originally published in various journals but are now collected here and available to a wider audience. The collection includes Joyce Adler’s previously unpublished essay on Harris’s cross-cultural dialogue with Melville, and a substantial autobiographical essay by Wilson Harris.

About the Author

Joyce Sparer Adler was a founding member of the University of Guyana. Irving Adler is a mathematician and antiwar activist and the author of several books.