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Overview
Overview
Ear Training gathers thirty previously published
essays and reviews by one of America's most playful critics. Known for his long
career as a professor and writer of critical biographies, for this collection
William H. Prichard has selected some of his favorite shorter pieces on
a wide range of topics. United by Pritchard's philosophy of literature,
which he calls "ear training", pieces on subjects from John Updike to Emily
Dickinson to Frank Sinatra to the soap opera The Young and the Restless
urge us to consider how literature sounds and how a sense of play in
our approach to the world can uncover buried truths and meanings. Also
included are the series of letters Pritchard wrote to his students in the early
months of COVID pandemic in 2020, meant to offer commentary on four English
writers - Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Throughout the collection
Pritchard urges the reader to engage with texts he has found particularly
delightful and illuminating, taking us on a tour of the world as he has heard
it through poetry, prose, music, and the voices of people he has known.
essays and reviews by one of America's most playful critics. Known for his long
career as a professor and writer of critical biographies, for this collection
William H. Prichard has selected some of his favorite shorter pieces on
a wide range of topics. United by Pritchard's philosophy of literature,
which he calls "ear training", pieces on subjects from John Updike to Emily
Dickinson to Frank Sinatra to the soap opera The Young and the Restless
urge us to consider how literature sounds and how a sense of play in
our approach to the world can uncover buried truths and meanings. Also
included are the series of letters Pritchard wrote to his students in the early
months of COVID pandemic in 2020, meant to offer commentary on four English
writers - Dryden, Swift, Pope, and Samuel Johnson. Throughout the collection
Pritchard urges the reader to engage with texts he has found particularly
delightful and illuminating, taking us on a tour of the world as he has heard
it through poetry, prose, music, and the voices of people he has known.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Pritchard, William H.
- ISBN: 9781589881822
- Condition: New
- Number Of Pages: 450
- Publication Year: 2023
Language:
English