Temple Of Texts Pa

by Gass,William H.

• ISBN13: 9781564784681
• ISBN10: 1564784681
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-09-17
• Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS

Summary

Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, A Temple of Texts is the latest critical collection from one of America¿s greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of literary experience by turning his critical sensibility upon all the books that shaped his own development as a reader, writer, and human being. With essays on figures ranging from William Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein to Flann O¿Brien and Robert Burton, Gass creates a ¿temple¿ of readerly devotion, a collection of critical explorations as brilliant and incisive as readers have come to expect from this literary master, but also a surprisingly personal window into the author¿s own literary development.

Author Biography

William H. Gass—essayist, novelist, literary critic—was born in Fargo, North Dakota. He has been the recipient of the first PEN/Nabokov Award, the PEN/Spielvogel-Diamondstein Award for the Art of the Essay, three National Book Critic Circle Awards for Criticism, a Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, the Award for Fiction and the Medal of Merit for Fiction from the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations. He lives in St. Louis.