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OverviewThese essays emerge from years of reading, writing, and teaching through the exemplary controversies, commitments, and atmosphere of the crises of modernism that accompany the author's reading of European literature as a world literature. The author imagines the collection through the image of the Colporteur, who appears along the streets and waysides, walking the arcades of cities with books. One reads books, teaches them, speaks them, and they speak through us, then we write about them, and, if we are fortunate, we read them not just once but again and again. As a teacher of literature, the author is one of the fortunate ones. Untimely Passages is organized into ""Dossiers,"" which are the imaginary bridges over the literary river crossings. The collection shows a life in writing by crossing rivers to the ""other shores."" While it is true, according to Heraclitus, that we can't ""step into the same river twice,"" we can cross to the other shores and watch the rivers flowing, and even cross back again and again by rereading and writing by often posing the question of literacy: ""Why Write?"" The bridges become the authors we read, and we learn to listen to the noises coming from our bookcases. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jerry ZaslovePublisher: Talon Books,Canada Imprint: Talon Books,Canada Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.839kg ISBN: 9781772012606ISBN 10: 1772012602 Pages: 560 Publication Date: 05 May 2022 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJerry Zaslove was a teacher and writer in the fields of comparative literature and the social history of art. His most recent work includes the installation The Insurance Man: Kafka in the Penal Colony and essays on the place of the university in society, exile and memory, and the city in history. He has taught at Simon Fraser University since its opening year in the Departments of English and Humanities and is the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |