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Title: LETTERS OF INTRODUCTION
AN A-Z OF CULTURAL HEROES AND LEGENDS
By: Kevin Jackson
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.95


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ISBN 10: 1857546555
ISBN 13: 9781857546552
Publisher: CARCANET PRESS LTD
Pub. date: 25 March, 2004
Pages: 244
Description: This title is a review of cultural heroes and legends from the Harlem Renaissance to Andy Warhol, Dante to Ellington.
Synopsis: In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay. Always inventive, scholarly and sometimes zany, Jackson approaches ten writers and two 'themes', building an alphabet around each: 'A is for' to 'Z is for'. The alphabet touches on his subjects' history, their culture, their private and intimate lives, their anxieties, and most importantly their achievement. The Alphabets are introductory and exploratory. Jackson picks his way through the worlds of Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake, Dante, Duke Ellington, Freud, Goethe, the Harlem Renaissance, Paul Klee, Friedrich Nietzsche, Surrealism, Andy Warhol and Marguerite Yourcenar. As he goes he finds out more and more, by association, through legend and gossip, in imagination. It is a wonderful process, an approach which imposes wonderful juxtapositions and elicits delicious ironies. The form is redolent of childhood, the content is remote from childish things.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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