The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick-伊丽莎白·哈德威克的论文集

作者：Hardwick Elizabeth

书名：The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick《伊丽莎白·哈德威克的论文集》

中文简介：哈德威克在1959年改变了美国文学批评流行的风潮。在半个世纪的时间里，她广泛涉猎文章，打破标准，打破陈旧的神话，提炼出天才的构想。

英文简介：Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s, describes places where she lived and locations she visited, and writes about the foundations of American literature—Melville, James, Wharton—and the changes in American fiction, though her reading is wide and international. She contemplates writers’ lives—women writers, rebels, Americans abroad—and the literary afterlife of biographies, letters, and diaries. Selected and with an introduction by Darryl Pinckney, the Collected Essays gathers more than fifty essays for a fifty-year retrospective of Hardwick’s work from 1953 to 2003. “For Hardwick,” writes Pinckney, “the poetry and novels of America hold the nation’s history.” Here is an exhilarating chronicle of that history.