| The Professor: A Sentimental Education Contributor(s): Castle, Terry (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061670928 ISBN-13: 9780061670923 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Collections | Women Authors - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.54 |
| LCCN: 2010053607 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.3" W x 7.9" (0.57 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: " Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." --Susan Sontag From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings: a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a "Jedi knight of literary exploration and lesbian scholarship," and The Professor and Other Writings "a greatest-hits package of show-stopping monologues and offhand-genius riffs." The Professor and Other Writings is a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of gender, identity, and sexuality in the grand tradition of such feminist luminaries as Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, and Joan Didion. |
Contributor Bio(s): Castle, Terry: - Terry Castle was once described by Susan Sontag as "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." She is the author of seven books of criticism, including The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture (1993) and Boss Ladies, Watch Out! Essays on Women and Sex (2002). Her anthology, The Literature of Lesbianism, won the Lambda Literary Editor's Choice Award in 2003. She lives in San Francisco and is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. |