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In Letters of Introduction Kevin Jackson invents a new genre, the Alphabet Essay. Always inventive, scholarly and sometimes zany, Jackson approaches ten writers and two 'themes', building an alphabet around each: 'A is for' to 'Z is for'. The alphabet touches on his subjects' history, their culture, their private and intimate lives, their anxieties, and most importantly their achievement. The Alphabets are introductory and exploratory. Jackson picks his way through the worlds of Hildegard of Bingen, William Blake, Dante, Duke Ellington, Freud, Goethe, the Harlem Renaissance, Paul Klee, Friedrich Nietzsche, Surrealism, Andy Warhol and Marguerite Yourcenar. As he goes he finds out more and more, by association, through legend and gossip, in imagination. It is a wonderful process, an approach which imposes wonderful juxtapositions and elicits delicious ironies. The form is redolent of childhood, the content is remote from childish things.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Diaries, letters & journals

• Full title: Letters of Introduction
• Subtitle: An A-z of Cultural Heroes and Legends
• Author: Kevin Jackson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 244
• EAN: 9781857546552
• ISBN: 1857546555
• ID: 05117738
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 188 × 151 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. March 2004

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