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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.
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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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- 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
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