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Book Description
"James Wood has been called our best young critic. This is not true. He is our best critic; he thinks with a sublime ferocity."--Cynthia Ozick
Following the collection The Broken Estate--which established James Wood as the leading critic of his generation--The Irresponsible SelfContinue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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The sacred Wood
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood 312pp, Cape, £16.99 Since the demise of FR Leavis and his Great Tradition, it's been unusual for literary criticism explicitly to demand "moral seriousness" of its subject, or for critic ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Book Details
- English Books
- Paperback 336 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0312424604
- ISBN-13: 9780312424602
- Publisher: Picador
- Pub date: Apr 01, 2005
- Also available as: Hardcover
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keatsian 
Funny you should mention that...
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James Wood Jonathan Cape £16.99, pp256 James Wood is not often thought of as a comedian. He is too serious a critic for that, and too convinced of literature's own essential seriousness; even when ... (read full critics)