A Report on the Afterlife of Culture [Paperback]

Stephen Henighan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 22, 2008

In A Report on the Afterlife of Culture, one of Canada's most provocative writers ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. Henighan is equally engaged with the word and the world.

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"This is criticism...respectful of genuine literary accomplishment and merciless towards pretence and muddle. How badly we need it." --The Toronto Star

About the Author

Stephen Henighan is the author of ten previous books, a columnist for Geist magazine, and a contributor to publications such as The Walrus and The Times Literary Supplement (London), where a number of these essays first appeared. Henighan has won a Potter Short Story Prize and a McNally-Robinson Fiction Prize and has been nominated for a Governor General's Award, a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award. His popular following increases with each book.

Product Details

• Paperback: 325 pages
• Publisher: Biblioasis; First Trade edition (August 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1897231423
• ISBN-13: 978-1897231425
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,357,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful, January 16, 2012

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This review is from: A Report on the Afterlife of Culture (Paperback)

As a follow-on from my clash with Brian Myers over his laughable 'Reader's Manifesto', which dealt among other things with book reviews, may I commend this collection of the things, wide-ranging (the author is an accomplished linguist) and great fun. Life's too short to read or know everything so I'm grateful for such lively mediators. Must investigate his book on Canadian lit next, which puts the boot into the dire Fugitive Pieces among other things - something of which Myers would no doubt approve