Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? by Mason, David
Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? by Mason, David

Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?

"Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."--Kirkus Reviews "David Mason believes in literature as a weather event--even...
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Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? by Mason, David

Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?

$40.22
Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us? by Mason, David

Incarnation & Metamorphosis: Can Literature Change Us?

$40.22
Author: David Mason
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Witty and heartfelt essays, shaken and stirred."
--Kirkus Reviews

"David Mason believes in literature as a weather event--even an extreme one. He reads to be changed--drenched, burned, blown away. He has no wish to have his standing position confirmed, and is alert to the ways in which his subjects are changed, both by their writing and its reception. These essays move comfortably from the lines of a Nobel Prize-winning poet to the dwelling of a Greek peasant who could have stepped out of Homer, on to the perils of literary biography. Mason is a reader as much as he is a writer. He looks into the political in order to find the personal--not the other way round. Incarnation & Metamorphosis is engaging all the way through, not least when Mason acts on the assumption, 'The imagination is free.'"
--James Campbell, author of Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin

"Literary criticism," David Mason writes, "ought to entertain as well as illuminate." In these essays Mason tells stories about embodiment and change, incarnation and metamorphosis, drawing connections between art and life without confusing the two. Mason considers the many kinds of change we encounter in our lives, our desire for justice, and the ways great writers complicate that desire. He discusses the lives and works of writers like Montaigne, Diderot, and Neruda as well as his colorful father's fascination with a fictional character. He takes up such contemporary figures as the daring Australian writer Helen Garner, the playwright Tom Stoppard, and the poet-critic Dana Gioia; has fresh things to say about the perils of fame in the careers of Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney; and mourns the loss of poet Michael Donaghy.

Incarnation & Metamorphosis is a book about living with literature--Mason writes that literature "is telling us that we are seen, warts and all. Criticism, such as the essays in this book, is a way of seeing back."

Author: David Mason
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 03/07/2023
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
ISBN: 9781589881723


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 01/30/2023
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