Rambling Prose
Selected Essays
Published on 17. November 2020
257 pages
978-1-59534-935-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rambling Prose is a collection of essays by Steven G. Kellman, culled from his lifetime of work on comparative literature, criticism, and film studies. Filled with wordplay and surprising insight, the collection demonstrates his range as an essayist and invites us to explore the human experience through refined literary analysis. Kellman explores such topics as animal rights, silence, mortality, eroticism, film, and language with his unique critical perspective and offers complex investigations of eternal human quandaries that raise more questions than they answer. Witty and insightful, Rambling Prose is a book for anyone who loves language and believes in the power, both positive and negative, of words to change the world
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Person
Steven G. Kellman is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has taught since 1976. He is the author of The Restless Ilan Stavans: Outsider on the Inside, The Translingual Imagination, Loving Reading: Erotics of the Text, and Redemption: The Life of Henry Roth, which received the New York Society Library Award for Biography, as well as hundreds of essays and more than a thousand reviews. Among his other honors are the Gemini Ink Literary Excellence Award and the San Antonio Public Library Foundation's Arts and Letters Award. He lives in San Antonio.
Content
- Intro
- Preface
- Silence of the Limens
- That Goes without Saying
- Life in the Margins
- Out of Sight
- Ain't We Got Fun?
- Honor among Scholars
- Flesh and Food
- Fish, Flesh, and Foul
- Green Freedom for the Cockatoo
- Kafka's Plea
- Literary Seductions
- Ut Coitus Lectio
- Books and Ballots
- When Literature Was Dangerous
- Joyce for Ordinary Blokes
- Reading Shilts Reading Camus Reading a Plague
- Four Score and Philip Roth
- Whither Reading
- Arms and the Curriculum
- Education for Education's Sake
- New and Newer Directions
- New and Newer Directions
- Is a University without LiteratureLike a Milkshake without an Olive?
- Reading's Next Chapter
- Kael and Farewell
- Esperanto at the Movies
- All the Glittering Prizes
- The Truth about Bullshit
- Second Wind
- If Art Is a Lie, Then Tell Me a Tale
- Literary Silences
- Telling It All
- Swan Songs
- Notes
- Credits
