Labyrinths And Clues: Essays (Odd Volumes)

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.

• | Author: Alan Wall
• | Publisher: Odd Volumes
• | Publication Date: May 07, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 266 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0615935788
• | ISBN-13: 9780615935782