The Professor: A Sentimental Education - Softcover

Castle, Professor Of English Terry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061670928 ISBN 13: 9780061670923

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2011

Synopsis

"[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." --Susan Sontag

From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a "Jedi knight of literary exploration and lesbian scholarship," and The Professor and Other Writings "a greatest-hits package of show-stopping monologues and offhand-genius riffs." The Professor and Other Writings is a hilarious and heartbreaking exploration of gender, identity, and sexuality in the grand tradition of such feminist luminaries as Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, and Joan Didion.

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Review:

"Terrific...a blast of hilarity, candor, trenchance and literary grace... There is a voice here that is wildly entertaining, totally compelling and not really quite like any other you're likely to have read." (Editor's Choice)--Buffalo News

"This is the book we Terry Castle fans have been waiting for, and those new to her work are in for a revelation - a brain-goosing, entertaining blast."--James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair

"Terry Castle is an irreverent, witty feminist - words one does not often associate. Her tale of her love affair as a student with an older professor is touching and wicked; she is a brilliant stylist, and everything she writes is gripping."--Edmund White

"Critic and cultural commentator Castle delivers a vibrant series of essays on art, travel and the personal relationships in her life. . . . She deftly uses her personal experience to illuminate an array of other subjects. . . . A sharply written, deeply personal collection."--Kirkus Reviews

."..every page hums with a kind of cathartic glee -- a testimony to Castle's ability to transform even the grimmest scenarios into savage comic prose...The Professor and Other Writings documents a brilliant mind discovering a deeper, more intimate mode of expression."--Salon.com

"Her story of woe is leavened by great humor. For all of her success in academia, Castle's writing here is the very opposite of academic: lively, confessional, personal."--Bay Area Reporter

"Her new essay collection, The Professor and Other Writings is filled with her trademark wit and honest, smart writing. Taken together, these six essays read like an engrossing and entertaining memoir."--Largehearted Boy Blog

"[An] irresistible new collection of personal essays. . . . The Professor goes places no book ever written about professors has ever gone. . . . Superb."--New Republic

"A collection of six recent essays from this Stanford professor and Lambda Literary Award winner, The Professor is a hybrid of memoir and criticism containing equal measures of good humor, snark and self deprecation."--Curve magazine

"In this questing, deeply funny and joltingly wonderful book...the life of the author's abundant mind and heart are explored in an altogether scintillating way. Readers...are in for a major find. . . . Castle is at once penetratingly keen and unfailingly good company."--San Francisco Chronicle

Book Description:

From one of America's most celebrated critics and cultural commentators a remarkable collection of autobiographical writings by "the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." (Susan Sontag)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0061670928
• ISBN 13: 9780061670923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352