The Poethical Wager

by Joan Retallack

Book Overview

In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne's essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520218418
• ISBN13: 9780520218413
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.0"