New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1996
Physical Details
x, 354 pages ; 23 cm
ISBNs
9780679446620, 0679446621
OCLC
ocm33817695
Pulitzer: the people's prize -- A failing grade for the present tense -- Finding a form -- A fiesta for the form -- Robert Walser -- Ford's impressionisms -- The language of being and dying -- Nietzsche: the polemical philosopher -- At death's door: Wittgenstein -- Ezra Pound -- Autobiography -- The vicissitudes of the avant-garde -- Exile -- The story of the state of nature -- Nature, culture, and cosmos -- The baby or the Botticelli -- Simplicities -- The music of prose -- The book as a container of consciousness