The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays av Joan Acocella

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<p><b>The <i>New Yorker</i> critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.<br><br></b>Joan Acocella, ¿one of our finest cultural critics¿ (Edward Hirsch), has the rare ability to examine literature and unearth the lives contained within it¿its authors, its subjects, and the communities from which it has sprung. In her hands, arts criticism becomes a celebration and an investigation, and her essays pulse with unadulterated enthusiasm. As Kathryn Harrison wrote in <i>The New York Times Book Review</i>, ¿Hers is a vision that allows art its mystery but not its pretensions, to which she is acutely sensitive. What better instincts could a critic have?¿ <br><br><i>The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays</i> gathers twenty-four essays from the past decade and a half of Acocella¿s career, as well as an introduction that frames her simple preoccupations: ¿life and art.¿ In agile, inspired prose, the New Yorker staff writer moves from J. R. R. Tolkien¿s tra