Record details

• ISBN: 0865472475 (alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780865472471 (alk. paper)
• Physical Description: x, 171 p. ; 24 cm.
• Publisher: San Francisco : North Point Press, 1987.

Content descriptions

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Foreword -- The Champollion of table manners -- What are those monkeys doing? -- Transcendental satyr -- Montaigne -- Herondas -- Ariadne's dancing floor -- The Smith of Smiths -- The artist as critic -- The scholar as critic -- The critic as artist -- Balthus -- Nabokov's Don Quixote -- In that awful civil war -- More genteel than God -- The Peales in their museum -- Pergolesi's dog -- Late Beckett -- Every force evolves a form -- Making it uglier to the airport -- Imaginary Americas.