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The Resource Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith
Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith
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The item Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
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The item Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.
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- Summary
- Split into five sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," "Feeling" and "Remembering"--Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E.M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith's rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected. Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 306 p.
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- Reading. Their eyes were watching God : what does soulful mean?
- E.M. Forster, middle manager
- Middlemarch and everybody
- Rereading Barthes and Nabokov
- F. Kafka, everyman
- Two directions for the novel
- Being. That crafty feeling
- One week in Liberia
- Speaking in tongues
- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo
- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima
- At the multiplex, 2006
- Ten notes on Oscar weekend
- Feeling. Smith family Christmas
- Accidental hero
- Dead man laughing
- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men : the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace
- Isbn
- 9781594202377
- Label
- Changing my mind : occasional essays
- Title
- Changing my mind
- Title remainder
- occasional essays
- Statement of responsibility
- Zadie Smith
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Split into five sections-"Reading," "Being," "Seeing," "Feeling" and "Remembering"--Changing My Mind invites readers to witness the world from Zadie Smith's unique vantage. Smith casts her acute eye over material both personal and cultural, with wonderfully engaging essays-some published here for the first time-on diverse topics including literature, movies, going to the Oscars, British comedy, family, feminism, Obama, Katharine Hepburn, and Anna Magnani. In her investigations Smith also reveals much of herself. Her literary criticism shares the wealth of her experiences as a reader and exposes the tremendous influence diverse writers-E.M. Forster, Zora Neale Hurston, George Eliot, and others-have had on her writing life and her self-understanding. Smith also speaks directly to writers as a craftsman, offering precious practical lessons on process. Here and throughout, readers will learn of the wide-ranging experiences-in novels, travel, philosophy, politics, and beyond-that have nourished Smith's rich life of the mind. Her probing analysis offers tremendous food for thought, encouraging readers to attend to the slippery questions of identity, art, love, and vocation that so often go neglected. Changing My Mind announces Zadie Smith as one of our most important contemporary essayists, a writer with the rare ability to turn the world on its side with both fact and fiction. Changing My Mind is a gift to readers, writers, and all who want to look at life more expansively
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smith, Zadie
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR6069.M59
- LC item number
- C43 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- English essays
- English literature
- English essays
- English literature
- Label
- Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Reading. Their eyes were watching God : what does soulful mean? -- E.M. Forster, middle manager -- Middlemarch and everybody -- Rereading Barthes and Nabokov -- F. Kafka, everyman -- Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling -- One week in Liberia -- Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima -- At the multiplex, 2006 -- Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas -- Accidental hero -- Dead man laughing -- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men : the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 306 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594202377
- Lccn
- 2009023419
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)318411593
- (OCoLC)ocn318411593
- Label
- Changing my mind : occasional essays, Zadie Smith
- Note
- Includes index
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Reading. Their eyes were watching God : what does soulful mean? -- E.M. Forster, middle manager -- Middlemarch and everybody -- Rereading Barthes and Nabokov -- F. Kafka, everyman -- Two directions for the novel -- Being. That crafty feeling -- One week in Liberia -- Speaking in tongues -- Seeing. Hepburn and Garbo -- Notes on Visconti's Bellissima -- At the multiplex, 2006 -- Ten notes on Oscar weekend -- Feeling. Smith family Christmas -- Accidental hero -- Dead man laughing -- Remembering. Brief interviews with hideous men : the difficult gifts of David Foster Wallace
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiv, 306 p.
- Isbn
- 9781594202377
- Lccn
- 2009023419
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)318411593
- (OCoLC)ocn318411593
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