That Mighty Sculptor, Time

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The title esay consider's time's transforming effect on arrt, meditating on the erosion of a statue and the resulting production of a new, sublime work of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0374273588

ISBN13:9780374273583

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux

Length:229 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"

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Contemporary Criticism & Theory Essays Essays & Correspondence History & Criticism Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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