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Essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast).

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"It is fashionable today to mourn the paucity of public intellectuals in America. Meet Adam Kirsch, one of the very best literary/cultural critics writing today-a critic in the grand tradition of Edmund Wilson or Lionel Trilling. Rocket and Lightship is a delight to read." -- Marjorie Perloff "Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. Whether he is dispatching the repellent ideology of Slavoj Zizek or reappraising the literary legacy of E. M. Forster, he writes with stunning force and beautiful lucidity." -- Janet Malcolm "[Kirsch's] rare literary authority is on full display...It's a pleasure to be convoyed through Western literature by Kirsch, whose self-assuredness feels more like intellectual comfort than it does coercion." -- Alice Gregory

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/02/2015
      ISBN13: 9780393243468, 978-0393243468
      ISBN10: 039324346X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Essays from a "great poet-critic-intellectual" (Daily Beast).

      Trade Review
      "It is fashionable today to mourn the paucity of public intellectuals in America. Meet Adam Kirsch, one of the very best literary/cultural critics writing today-a critic in the grand tradition of Edmund Wilson or Lionel Trilling. Rocket and Lightship is a delight to read." -- Marjorie Perloff "Adam Kirsch is one of the best of our cultural and literary critics. Whether he is dispatching the repellent ideology of Slavoj Zizek or reappraising the literary legacy of E. M. Forster, he writes with stunning force and beautiful lucidity." -- Janet Malcolm "[Kirsch's] rare literary authority is on full display...It's a pleasure to be convoyed through Western literature by Kirsch, whose self-assuredness feels more like intellectual comfort than it does coercion." -- Alice Gregory

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