On Trust
Art and the Temptations of Suspicion
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Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9562424M
- ISBN-139780300079913
- ISBN-100300079915
- OCLC Control Number41528017
- OCLC Control Numberontrustarttempta0000josi
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99016233
- LibraryThing1223323
- Goodreads1056121
Classifications
- LCCPN56.T77 J67 1999
Description
"In this wide-ranging book, an eminent novelist, playwright, and literary critic explores the question that has troubled artists and philosophers (though not critics) since the time of the Romantics: is it possible to create art today with the freedom of earlier ages and yet produce works that are more than merely decorative or commercial? Such a question, argues Gabriel Josipovici, is not timeless; it has a history, and a relatively short one at that. Why is it only with the Romantics that suspicion, not just of motive but of the very tools of art, language, and form, has become so insistent?"--BOOK JACKET. "To understand Romantic suspicion, the author argues, we need to understand what it supplanted and why. To that end he turns to the work created in what he calls cultures of trust, to Homer and the Hebrew Bible, to Dante and Shakespeare, before examining the interplay of trust and suspicion in a number of Romantic and post-Romantic writers from Wordsworth to Beckett."--BOOK JACKET.
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