Author: Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: books, love, revisit, writers, seventeen, rereadings
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-09-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0374530548
ISBN-13: 9780374530549

Is a book the same book—or a reader the same reader—the second time around? The seventeen authors in this witty and poignant collection of essays all agree on the answer: Never. The editor of Rereadings is Anne Fadiman, and readers of her bestselling book Ex Libris will find this volume especially satisfying. Her chosen authors include Sven Birkerts, Allegra Goodman, Vivian Gornick, Patricia Hampl, Phillip Lopate, and Luc Sante; the objects of their literary affections range from Pride and Prejudice to Sue Barton, Student Nurse. These essays are not conventional literary criticism; they

Author: Alexander Zholkovsky
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: text, history, literary, rereadings, counter, russian
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1996-05-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804727031
ISBN-13: 9780804727037

Using structuralist and post-structuralist methods, this book analyzes a selection of influential Russian texts—classical, modernist, and contemporary—as dialogues with earlier works, in the light of new cultural contexts.