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Bezig met laden... On being blue: a philosophical inquiry (1976)door William H. Gass
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "ON BEING BLUE has been composed by Michael & Winifred Bixler. The typeface is Monotype Dante, designed by the archtypographer Giovanni Mardersteig, cut in its original version by the skilled punchcutter Charles Malin and first used in 1954. The mechanical recutting by the Monotype Corporation of this strong and elegant Renaissance design preserves the liveliness, personality, and dignity of the original. The third printing has been printed offset by Mercantile Printing Company on Warren's Olde Style and has been bound by New Hampshire Bindery." ( ) Typical Gass. The first three sections are a brilliant sort of post-modern rambling fugue on the color, word, idea, etc. of blue. Great, huh? Then he adds a fourth section that’s like something ripped out of a different notebook that he just tacks on. At least it was overall better than [b:Omensetter's Luck|156188|Omensetter's Luck|William H. Gass|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347246872s/156188.jpg|150721]. Gass’s major writings are like literary practical jokes, or like a guy who writes well but doesn’t know how to use an outline. He must have missed those classes. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p105kzw-Wmw ======================================================== Reading note from first reading (11 December 2016): Philosophy, philology, criticism, prosody, a mere thematic essay? All of these? None of these? What, exactly, is this book? As best I can judge, it is simply a panegyric to the splendor of language. Beyond the voluble figure-eights of the sentences, what strikes me most here, as with all of Gass's work, is his acuity for metaphor. There are tropes in here that render your mind numb with impact. Yet, at the same time, these linguistic gymnastics seem inevitable. One thinks of Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse": I said, ‘A line will take us hours maybe; I wasn't sure what to expect from this inquiry and it surprised, and delighted me, that Gass spends so much time ruminating on the constraints of the author and limits of language around sex and bawdy behavior. Indeed, the majority of the blurbs talk about sound writing, but the main sound he's writing about is fucking. It's elegant, proactive, and challenging nonetheless. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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On Being Blueis a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes- Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere- in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown are widely distributed, but there are no joyful swatches of either, or any of the exuberant black, sullen pink, or acquiescent orange. Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright think quick sour new and cool or low deep sweet dark soft slow smooth heavy old and warm- blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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