Labyrinths and Clues: Essays

by Alan Wall

This book contains the following pieces, all published first in The Fortnightly Review: Essayism and Modernity William Blake. Therianthropes and vents. Constellations. Pattern recognition and the periodic table. Extremities of perception in an age of lenses. Demotic ritual. Science and disenchantment. The self-subversion of the book. Newton's prisms. The Janus face of Metaphor. Clues and labyrinths. Ruin, the collector and sad mortality.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615935788
• ISBN13: 9780615935782
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Odd Volumes
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"