Bøger af Judy Kravis

In this text, writers and teachers such as Grace Paley, Edmund White and Andrei Codrescu explore their responses to literature. They describe how they teach and what they teach, and remember the teaching they received, both good and bad.

This book was originally published in 1976. Mallarme's writings about the nature and purposes of art lie behind much modern critical theory. There is no sharp distinction between his poetry and his prose. Yet the prose is little studied. Dr Kravis treats it under the headings of literary, music and dramatic criticism, translation, writing on fashion and on language.

The people who talk about their lives in this book represent a creative, dissident Ireland. They are artists, writers, environmentalists, farmers, travellers and more. These thirty-two portraits in word and image provide an alternative view of the possibilities of life in Ireland, and a bracing antidote to the banalities of the consumer society.