| Anarchism Is Not Enough Contributor(s): Riding, Laura (Author), Samuels, Lisa (Editor), Samuels, Lisa (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0520213947 ISBN-13: 9780520213944 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2001 Annotation: "Of the half-dozen key theoretical documents of Modernism written in English, this book, and Stein's "How to Write, are surely the most brilliant. The originality of Anarchism's thought seems hardly less arresting today than it was when first published 70 years ago. We owe Samuels a great debt for restoring this book to our attention."--Jerome McGann, University of Virginia |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 99020038 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.52" W x 8.16" (0.90 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1920's - Chronological Period - 1930's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Anarchism is Not Enough is a manifesto against systematic thinking, a difficult book by a famously difficult writer. For the scope of its critical imagination, it is the most radical work of Laura Riding's early period. This period extends from the end of 1925, when she left America for Europe and Robert Graves, to 1939, the year she returned to America, renounced any further writing of poetry, and soon after married Schuyler Jackson. Published in 1928, when Riding was twenty-seven, Anarchism is a kind of early autobiographia literaria. Long out of print and now available for the first time in paperback, this is one of the most imaginative and daring works of literary theory ever written by a modernist figure. Lisa Samuels's edition sets the work in its historical context and elucidates its central intellectual difficulties. Her introduction and notes are a valuable aid to an understanding of Riding's work. |