Labyrinths and Clues: Essays - Paperback
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Labyrinths and Clues: Essays - Paperback
$29.70
by Alan Wall (Author)
This book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity - William Blake. - Therianthropes and vents. - Constellations. - Pattern recognition and the periodic table. - Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. - Demotic ritual. - Science and disenchantment. - The self-subversion of the book. - Newton's prisms. - The Janus face of Metaphor. - Clues and labyrinths. - Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.
Author Biography
Alan Wall was born in Bradford, lives in North Wales, and studied English at Oxford. He has published six novels and three collections of poetry, including Doctor Placebo. Jacob, a book written in verse and prose, was shortlisted for the Hawthornden Prize. His work has been translated into ten languages. He has published essays and reviews in many different periodicals including the Guardian, Spectator, The Times, Jewish Quarterly, Leonardo, PN Review, London Magazine, The Reader and Agenda. He was Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Writing at Warwick University and Liverpool John Moores and is currently Professor of Writing and Literature at the University of Chester.
Number of Pages: 266
Dimensions: 0.56 x 7.99 x 5 IN
Publication Date: May 07, 2014
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