{"product_id":"poetics-and-praxis-understanding-and-imagination-the-collected-essays-of-o-b-hardison-jr-hardcover","title":"Poetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination: The Collected Essays of O. B. Hardison Jr. - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eO. B. Jr. Hardison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eArthur F. Kinney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe selections reflect the many facets of Hardison's remarkably crowded and productive life and career. Once lionized on the cover of Time magazine, which praised him as one of America's \"great teachers\" and a \"Renaissance man,\" Hardison was widely known and published as a poet, critic, scholar, administrator, and social and cultural observer. He served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America, and, perhaps most impressive of his many honors and accomplishments, as the third director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Hardison transformed the Folger from a scholarly retreat into an active research center and established fellowships, residencies, and The Folger Institute. In addition, the Folger grew into a prominent national cultural center that featured musical and dramatic performing groups, a poetry reading series, and an art gallery. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePoetics and Praxis, Understanding and Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e is both a tribute to the essay and to one of its most distinguished modern practitioners, as well as an important survey of humanistic concerns in literature and the arts over the past three decades.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether O.B. Hardison Jr. (1929-1990) wrote about government's responsibility to the arts and humanities, film adaptations of Shakespeare's play, Dadaist poetry, or modern and postmodern design and architecture, his chosen form was the essay. Showcasing Hardison's mastery of the essay's power to instruct, persuade, and provoke, the twenty-five selections in this volume range from his earliest works to those completed but still unpublished at the time of his death. As Arthur F. Kinney notes in his preface, they all bear hallmarks of Hardison's style: his intensity and acuity of thought, his concreteness, his grounding of the present and future in the past, his easy melding of analytic and expository conventions, and his intercultural perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eO. B. Hardison Jr. (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e O. B. Hardison Jr. (1928-1990) was widely known and published as a poet, critic, scholar, administrator, and social and cultural observer. He served as president of the Shakespeare Association of America and Renaissance Society of America, and, perhaps most impressive of his many honors and accomplishments, as the third director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eArthur F. Kinney (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ARTHUR F. KINNEY was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and is the author of \u003ci\u003eFaulkner's Narrative Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBear, Man and God\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.31 x 9.52 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48757427765497,"sku":"9780820318196","price":95.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Fa_x95Mhd9780820318196.webp?v=1785946515","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/poetics-and-praxis-understanding-and-imagination-the-collected-essays-of-o-b-hardison-jr-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}