William Deresiewicz
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A self-styled intellectual rebel, William Deresiewicz never thought Jane Austen's novels had anything to offer him. But when he was assigned to read Emma as a Columbia graduate student, something extraordinary happened. Austen's devotion to the everyday and her belief in the value of ordinary lives ignited something in him. Viewing the world through her eyes and treating people as generously, his life suddenly acquired the fascination of a novel.
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Series
Language
Español
Description
¿Es el universitario una oveja, que hay que unir a un buen rebaño para que alcance una buena posición económica? ¿Eso es todo, o casi todo? Deresiewicz denuncia carencias, interpela, incomoda. Porque está en juego la propia construcción interior de la persona.
Enseñar no es un problema de ingeniería. No se trata de transferir una cierta cantidad de información de un cerebro a otro. "Educar" significa "conducir". El trabajo de un profesor...
Author
Language
English
Description
A lively and rigorous investigation into what it means to lead a creative life today-from the new opportunities to the great personal costs provided by technology.
Over the last twenty years, art has become more accessible than ever before. A painter can post their latest creation on Instagram and wait as the likes pile up; a budding filmmaker can shoot a clip on their iPhone, then upload it to YouTube for thousands to view. The digital landscape...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Over the last twenty years, art has become more accessible than ever before. A painter can post their latest creation on Instagram and wait as the likes pile up; a budding filmmaker can shoot a clip on their iPhone, then upload it to YouTube for thousands to view. The digital landscape has fundamentally altered what it means to be creative, as well as how consumers interact with artistic production both economically and curatorially. William Deresiewicz,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career. The End of Solitude brings together more than forty of his finest essays, including four that are published here for the first time. Ranging widely across the culture, they take up subjects as diverse as Mad Men and Harold Bloom, the significance...