Author: LANGBAUM, ROBERT WOODROW
Title: Isak Dinesen's Art the Gayety of Vision
Description: Chicago: Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx), 1975. First Edition Thus. Paperback. ISBN: 0226468712. A Phoenix Book ; P628 Series; 8.40 X 5.50 X 0.70 inches; viii, 309 pages; Soft cover has an orange spine with white lettering. Slight sunning/fading, and rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Originally published in 1964 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. And in 1965 by Random House, Inc. ; As The Gayety of Vision'. "Only a study as perceptive and circumspect as this can reveal the intellectual and formal coherence of isak Dinesen's writings. From his meticulous survey of her life, her convictions, and her purposes as an artist, there emerges a portrait not merely of an aristocractic and fastidious woman who produced stories of an old-fashioned, romantic power, but of a major and significant contemporary writer. " bibliography; index.. Very Good+ .

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