Bibliograph

The inky digit of defiance, selected prose 1966-2016, Tony Harrison ; edited by Edith Hall

Type

Label

The inky digit of defiance, selected prose 1966-2016, Tony Harrison ; edited by Edith Hall

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-534)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The inky digit of defiance

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1002069579

Responsibility statement

Tony Harrison ; edited by Edith Hall

Sub title

selected prose 1966-2016

Summary

"In this richly varied selection of Tony Harrison's provocative prose of the last fifty years, the great poet of page, stage and screen presents a lifetime's thinking about art and politics, creativity and mortality. In so doing, he takes us on an extraordinary journey through languages and across continents and millennia, from his Nigerian Lysistrata to the British Raj of his version of Racine's Phèdre, to post-Communist Europe for the film Prometheus to a one-off performance of The Kaisers of Carnuntum at the Roman amphitheatre between Vienna and Bratislava, tothe peace camp at Greenham Common, and from a Leeds street bonfire celebrating the defeat of Japan by the new atomic bomb to wines made from the vines on volcanoes."--Publisher's description

Table Of Contents

Foreword: An Inky tribute / Edith Hall -- Introduction: Inkless and digital -- Aikin Mata -- Fellowship -- Shango the shaky fairy -- The inkwell of Dr Agrippa -- The misanthrope -- Palladas -- Phaedra Britannica -- Facing up to the muses -- The trackers of Oxyrhynchus -- Hecuba to us -- Honorary doctorate, Athens: acceptance speech -- Prometheus: fire and poetry -- The tears and the trumpets -- The fanatic pillager -- Egil and Eagle-Bark -- Square rounds -- Weeping for Hecuba -- Even now -- Flicks and this fleeting life -- The Inky digit of defiance -- The label trail to Strasbourg -- The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2015

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