The best American essays, 1992 /
The best American essays, 1992 /
edited and with an introduction by Susan Sontag ; Robert Atwan, series editor.
- New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1992.
- xix, 331 p. ; 22 cm.
Short talks / Anne Carson -- Sentimental journeys / Joan Didion -- Standards / E.L. Doctorow -- Liberty and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Some overrated masterpieces / Stanley Elkin -- Thinking about killing: Hamlet and the paths among the passions / Philip Fisher -- Exile / William H. Gass -- Audubon's passion / Adam Gopnik -- Canon, syllabus, list: a note on the pedagogic imaginary / John Guillory -- Wind from the prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick -- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Opera and homosexuality: seven arias / Wayne Koestenbaum -- The zipper / Leonard Michaels -- Victims, all? / David Rieff -- Look away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace -- Needs / George W.S. Trow -- First things first ; The mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike -- Lincoln up close / Gore Vidal.
0395599369(pbk.)
American essays--20th century.
PS681 / .B47 1992
Short talks / Anne Carson -- Sentimental journeys / Joan Didion -- Standards / E.L. Doctorow -- Liberty and pornography / Ronald Dworkin -- Some overrated masterpieces / Stanley Elkin -- Thinking about killing: Hamlet and the paths among the passions / Philip Fisher -- Exile / William H. Gass -- Audubon's passion / Adam Gopnik -- Canon, syllabus, list: a note on the pedagogic imaginary / John Guillory -- Wind from the prairie / Elizabeth Hardwick -- What's wrong with animal rights / Vicki Hearne -- On seeing England for the first time / Jamaica Kincaid -- Opera and homosexuality: seven arias / Wayne Koestenbaum -- The zipper / Leonard Michaels -- Victims, all? / David Rieff -- Look away, Dixie Land / Patricia Storace -- Needs / George W.S. Trow -- First things first ; The mystery of Mickey Mouse / John Updike -- Lincoln up close / Gore Vidal.
0395599369(pbk.)
American essays--20th century.
PS681 / .B47 1992