Heresies and Heretics
«'It is vintage George Watson, challenging, intransigent, witty, drawing on an immensely wide range of reading and taking treasured assumptions apart with breezy charm. His memories of friends - some of them known to me - are both poignant and trenchant. Altogether a delight.' John Carey, emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford "[Watson's] wrting style was always engaging, with a mischievous wit, so It is good to have them in a durable form. They are short essays with interesting perspectives and well worth reading." Stewart Rayment, in "Journal of the Liberal International British Group", issue 1, 2015»
In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'true', original heretics, many of whom he has met and taught: from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that his study of the remote past had made a radical of him, rather than any influence of modernism, to Douglas Adams, whom Watson knew as an undergraduate. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Lutterworth Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780718892920
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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«'It is vintage George Watson, challenging, intransigent, witty, drawing on an immensely wide range of reading and taking treasured assumptions apart with breezy charm. His memories of friends - some of them known to me - are both poignant and trenchant. Altogether a delight.' John Carey, emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford "[Watson's] wrting style was always engaging, with a mischievous wit, so It is good to have them in a durable form. They are short essays with interesting perspectives and well worth reading." Stewart Rayment, in "Journal of the Liberal International British Group", issue 1, 2015»