More Dynamite: Essays 1990-2012

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More Dynamite anthologizes a wealth of essays by a writer with one of the keenest critical eyes of his generation. Craig Raine-poet, critic, novelist, Oxford don, and editor-turns his fearsome and unflinching gaze on subjects ranging from Kafka to Koons, Beckett to Babel. He waxes lyrical about Ron Mueck's hyperreal sculptures and reassesses the metafiction of David Foster Wallace. For Raine, no element of cultural output is insignificant, be it cinema, fiction, poetry, or installation art. Finding solace in both literature and art alike, and finding moments of truth and beauty where ot.;Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Part One: Books -- Reading the Fine Print; Isaac Babel (2002); Derek Walcott's Poetry (2000); Raymond Carver (2009); Elizabeth Bishop (2008); William Golding (2009); William Golding's The Spire (2011); Updike: Just Looking (1990); Updike Tribute (2009); Memory in Literature (2005); Kipling and Racism (1999); Just So Stories (2001); Stoppard's Trilogy (2002); Stoppard: A Speech (2004); Life Studies (2003); Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2004); Lowell's Letters (2005); The Lowell-Bishop Letters (2008).