On Being Blue A Philosophical Inquiry

Name: On Being Blue A Philosophical Inquiry
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ISBN: 9781590177181

ISBN-10: 1590177185

ISBN-13: 9781590177181

Edition: 2014

Authors: William H. Gass, Michael Gorra

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On Being Blue is a book about everything blue-sex and sleaze and sadness, among other things-and about everything else. It brings us the world in a word as only William H. Gass, among contemporary American writers, can do. Gass writes: Of the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Sad reds and melancholy yellows are difficult to turn up. Among the ancient elements, blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in the flame as purely as in the flower, overhead and inside caves, covering fruit and oozing out of clay. Although green enlivens the earth and mixes in the ocean, and we find it, copperish, in fire; green air, green skies, are rare. Gray and brown and widely…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 3/11/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.95" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.286

Michael Gorra teaches English at Smith College. His books include After Empire, The Bells in Their Silence, and, as editor, the Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.