Word: criticã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2001-2001
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While Gornick does have trouble turning the critic??€™s eye inward, she makes up for it with in-depth, critical analysis of some of the most important personal nonfiction of the twentieth century. She splits the writings into two categories: essays, in which the narrator explores a subject through his own relation with it, and memoirs in which the narrator explores herself through some external topic. Her discussion of the writings of Oscar Wilde, Edward Hoagland, Natalia Ginzburg, James Baldwin Orwell and Lynn Darling, among others, is done with the deft hand of an experienced teacher...