More Dynamite
Essays 1990-2012
Published on 5. December 2013
560 pages
978-1-78239-205-7 (ISBN)
Description
More Dynamite anthologizes a wealth of essays by a writer with one of the keenest critical eyes of his generation. Craig Raine - poet, critic, novelist, Oxford don and editor - turns his fearsome and unflinching gaze on subjects ranging from Kafka to Koons, Beckett to Babel. He waxes lyrical about Ron Mueck's hyperreal sculptures and reassesses the metafiction of David Foster Wallace. For Raine, no element of cultural output is insignificant, be it cinema, fiction, poetry or installation art.
Finding solace in both literature and art alike, and finding moments of truth and beauty where others had stopped looking, More Dynamite will reinvigorate readers, challenge our perceptions of the classics and wonderfully affirm our love of good writing, new and old. This extensive collection of essays is a crash course in twentieth century artistic endeavour - nothing short of a master class in high culture from one of the most discerning minds in contemporary British letters.
Finding solace in both literature and art alike, and finding moments of truth and beauty where others had stopped looking, More Dynamite will reinvigorate readers, challenge our perceptions of the classics and wonderfully affirm our love of good writing, new and old. This extensive collection of essays is a crash course in twentieth century artistic endeavour - nothing short of a master class in high culture from one of the most discerning minds in contemporary British letters.
Reviews / Votes
For more than 20 years, Craig Raine's essays have appeared in the best of Britain's thinking press, not least in these pages. This collection amounts to a critical survey of over a century of literature and art... What [Raine] brings to them all is a daunting frame of reference... It makes familiar figures seem fresh. * New Statesman * Inventive, frequently charming, but unapologetically opinionated... Raine's exuberant iconoclasm is always worth watching in full swing. -- Jeremy Noel-Tod * Daily Telegraph * [Raine] is still - and always will be - an incredibly stylish writer. * Financial Times * Raine's talent is by no means a neligible one * Guardian * Craig Raine's novels are brilliant and that's the end of it. * Dazed and Confused *More details
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Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
2,10 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78239-205-7 (9781782392057)
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Person
Craig Raine was born in 1944 and educated at Exeter College, Oxford. He became editor of Quarto in 1979 and was subsequently Poetry Editor at Faber from 1981 to 1991. He is now an emeritus Fellow at New College, Oxford, and has been the editor of Arete, the arts tri-quarterly, since 1999. He is the author of six works of poetry, and his Collected Poems 1978-1999 were published in 2000. His verse drama, '1953' was directed by Patrick Marber at the Almeida Theatre in 1996. He is the author of two collections of literary essays and, most recently, a critical study T. S. Eliot (2007).
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Part One: Books - Reading the Fine Print
- Isaac Babel (2002)
- Derek Walcott's Poetry (2000)
- Raymond Carver (2009)
- Elizabeth Bishop (2008)
- William Golding (2009)
- William Golding's The Spire (2011)
- Updike: Just Looking (1990)
- Updike Tribute (2009)
- Memory in Literature (2005)
- Kipling and Racism (1999)
- Just So Stories (2001)
- Stoppard's Trilogy (2002)
- Stoppard: A Speech (2004)
- Life Studies (2003)
- Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004)
- Lowell's Letters (2005)
- The Lowell-Bishop Letters (2008)
- Double Exposures: Ted Hughes (2006)
- Ted Hughes's Letters (2007)
- A. E. Housman's Letters (2007)
- Marianne Moore (2004)
- V. S. Naipaul (2001)
- J. M. Coetzee (2007)
- Geoffrey Hill, Christopher Logue, Seamus Heaney (2005)
- J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace (2010)
- Kundera's Italics (2006)
- Kundera's The Curtain (2007)
- Christopher Logue (2007)
- Counter-Intuitive Larkin (2008)
- Rebecca Gilman: Dramatist (2004)
- Joyce's Exiles (2006)
- Harold Pinter Remembered (2009)
- Short Bit about Beckett (2006)
- Don Paterson (2007)
- Kafka: The Trial (2001)
- Laughter in the Dark: Nabokov (1998)
- Paul Valéry's Notebooks (2000)
- Auden's Early Poetry (2005)
- Auden's Prose (2008)
- Zbigniew Herbert (2008)
- Not about Heroes (2006)
- Opera as a Flawed Form (2004)
- Influences (2004)
- Poetry and Language (2004)
- Short Introduction to T. S. Eliot (2008)
- The Laureate (2005)
- Consider the Hipster: How Good is David Foster Wallace? (2011)
- Eliot's Inferno: The Letters (2009)
- Bryan Forbes (2010)
- Alan Bennett: The Angst in the Axminster (2009)
- Salinger: 'A Perfect Day for Bananafish' (2010)
- Sex: Mrs Whitehouse and Mrs Eagleton (2010)
- Part Two: Art - Reading the Detail
- Seurat's Courage (1997)
- Old Friends in Venice (1995)
- Claes Oldenberg and Coosje van Bruggen (1999)
- Masterpieces: Things in Particular (1997)
- Frank Gehry (1998)
- Ron Mueck (2000)
- Mueck at Kanazawa (2008)
- Mueck: Invitation au Voyage (2009)
- Modigliani (2006)
- Adam Elsheimer (2006)
- Klimt (2008)
- Richard van den Dool (2005)
- Jeff Koons (2009)
- Rodchenko (2008)
- Sickert in Venice (2009)
- Vorticists (2011)
- Gerhard Richter (2011)
- Hockney at the Royal Academy (2012)
- Damien Hirst Retrospective (2012)
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Index
