Background
Gass, William H. was born on July 30, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of William Bernard and Claire (Sorensen) Gass.
( First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of t...)
First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country established William Gass as one of America’s finest and boldest writers of fiction, and nearly fifty years later, the book still stands as a landmark of contemporary fiction. The two novellas and three short stories it contains are all set in the Midwest, and together they offer a mythical reimagining of America’s heartland, with its punishing extremes of heat and cold, its endless spaces and claustrophobic households, its hidden and baffled desires, its lurking threat of violence. Exploring and expanding the limits of the short story, Gass works magic with words, words that are as squirming, regal, and unexpected as the roaches, boys, icicles, neighbors, and neuroses that fill these pages, words that shock, dazzle, illumine, and delight.
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(The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, ...)
The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, author of Cartesian Sonata, Finding a Form, and The Tunnel, reflects on the art of translation and on Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies -- and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. After nearly a lifetime of reading Rilke in English, William Gass undertook the task of translating Rilke's writing in order to see if he could, in that way, get closer to the work he so deeply admired. With Gass's own background in philosophy, it seemed natural to begin with the Duino Elegies, the poems in which Rilke's ideas are most fully expressed and which as a group are important not only as one of the supreme poetic achievements of the West but also because of the way in which they came to be written -- in a storm of inspiration. Gass examines the genesis of the ideas that inform the Elegies and discusses previous translations. He writes, as well, about Rilke the man: his character, his relationships, his life. Finally, his extraordinary translation of the Duino Elegies offers us the experience of reading Rilke with a new and fuller understanding.
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( The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosophe...)
The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork.
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( In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of...)
In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of America's most brilliant and eclectic minds examines literature, culture, writers (their lives and works), and the nature and uses of language and the written word. Included are discussions of Valéry, Henry Miller, Sartre, Freud, Faulkner, suicide, "art and order," and the transformation of language into poetry and fiction. The vividness and clarity of Gass's writing, the unabashed love and inimitable use of language-his startling metaphors, the sinuousness of his philosophy, the originality of his vision-make each essay a searching revelation of its subject, as well as an example of Gass's own singular artistry.
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(BLUE PENCILS, blue noses, blue movies, laws, and stocking...)
BLUE PENCILS, blue noses, blue movies, laws, and stockings. The dumps, mopes, Mondays; the ocean, the sky, and the deep, deep ice. The Whale. Jay. Ribbon. Fin. The grass in Kentucky. The china in Grandmother’s pantry. Of all the colors, blue has the widest range of associations, and the widest bandwidth of emotional tints and shades. It is therefore the most suitable color of interior life. Whether slick light sharp high bright and thin or low deep sweet thick dark and soft, blue moves easily among them all, and all profoundly qualify our states of feeling. This eccentric essay into the "world of blue" is the heart of the heart of Gass’s oeuvre.
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( Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Cri...)
Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, "A Temple of Texts" is the latest critical collection from one of America's greatest essayists and novelists. Here, William H. Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary experience by turning his critical sensibility upon all the books that shaped his own development as a reader, writer, and human being. With essays on figures ranging from William Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein to Flann O'Brien and Robert Burton, Gass creates a "temple" of readerly devotion, a collection of critical explorations as brilliant and incisive as readers have come to expect from this literary master, but also a surprisingly personal window into the author's own literary development.
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(Twenty-four essays by the modern master of literary criti...)
Twenty-four essays by the modern master of literary criticism, ranging from discussion of Gertrude Stein and Jorge Luis Borges to Henry James and "The Evil Demiurge."
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(From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of e...)
From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of essays, his first in eight years, on art, writing, nature and culture. This book is by one of the most important and briliant thinkers at work today.
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Gass, William H. was born on July 30, 1924 in Fargo, North Dakota, United States. Son of William Bernard and Claire (Sorensen) Gass.
AB, Kenyon College, 1947. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1973. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1985.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 2005. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1953.
Instructor philosophy, College of Wooster, Ohio., 1950-1954;
assistant professor, Purdue University, Lafayette, 1954-1960;
associate professor, Purdue University, Lafayette, 1960-1966;
professor philosophy, Purdue University, Lafayette, 1966-1969;
professor philosophy, Washington University, St. Louis, 1969-1979;
David May Distinguished University professor in humanities, Washington University, St. Louis, since 1979;
director, International Writers Center, since 1990. Visiting lecturer University of Illinois, 1958-1959. Member Rockefeller Commision on Humanities, 1978-1980.
Member literature panel National Endowment for the Arts, 1979-1982.
(William Gass writes about literary language, about histor...)
(The greatly admired essayist, novelist, and philosopher, ...)
( First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of t...)
(First published in 1968, In the Heart of the Heart of the...)
( In this sequel to Fiction & the Figures of Life, one of...)
(Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in criti...)
( The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosophe...)
(From the award-winning author of The Tunnel and A Temple ...)
( Winner of the 2007 Truman Capote Award for Literary Cri...)
(Twenty-four essays by the modern master of literary criti...)
(Twenty-four essays by the modern master of literary criti...)
(From the author of The Tunnel comes a new collection of e...)
(On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry (New York Review B...)
(BLUE PENCILS, blue noses, blue movies, laws, and stocking...)
("No one is better than William H. Gass at communicating t...)
(Reprint of the 1st ed. Published in 1971.)
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Married Mary Patricia O'Kelly, 1952 (divorced). Children: Richard, Robert, Susan. Married Mary Alice Henderson, 1969.
Children: Elizabeth, Catherine.