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| Being Elsewhere |
| John P. Sisk |
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Nonfiction / Essays
172 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-17-5
Paper: $12.50
172 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-16-5
Cloth: $25.00
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This is the third collection of essays by the doyon of American essayists, author of Person and Institution and The Tyrannies of Virtue, whose finely wrought style and erudite, discursive "journeys" have won praise from readers of the nation's most prestigious journals-from Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly to Commonweal and The American Spectator, from The Hudson Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review to the New York Times and First Things.
The "elsewheres" of the author's mind are scattered broadly: war and its generals, society and its celebrities, love and fear, couture and fanaticism, hope and acceptance. His ability to blend and contrast ideas, to oppose the trendy preoccupations of the moment with classical allusion or the trendy fads of a previous fin de siécle, repeatedly delights and surprises his readers. When he is being provocative, he is seldom bitter; when he is engaging, he is never saccharine. Traveling through the life of John Sisk, we make an eclectic humanist's journey toward an understanding of our history.
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John P. Sisk, a native of Spokane, was educated at Gonzaga University and the University of Washington. He has been a member of the English Department Faculty at Gonzaga University since 1938, teaching Shakespeare, American Literature, and English Romanticism. He served in the U.S. Air Force in World War II and was discharged in 1946 as a captain.
He was a Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1972-73 and has served as a consultant and panelist for the Aspen Institute program on Communications and Society (1974, 1975); National Endowment for the Humanities (1975-79, 1982); and the National Humanities Center (1980, 1981). He is an Associate of the National Faculty and Arnold Professor of the Humanities (Emeritus) at Gonzaga, where he also holds the position of Scholar-in-Residence. His critical essays, short fiction, and reviews have appeared in the nation's most important periodicals since 1949, most recently in The American Scholar, First Things, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, America, Salmagundi. These have been collected in two previous works, Person and Institution and The Tyrannies of Virtue. A Trial of Strength won the Carl Foreman Award for best short novel in an international competition sponsored by Harcourt, Brace; Highroads Productions; and Collins (England) in 1961. |
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| Praise for John P. Sisk |
"Surely one of the most gifted essayists writing today."
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—First Things.................... |
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| "In the great tradition of such literary essayists as Philip Rahv or Lionel Trilling...essays which load more inside their pages than most books hold in ten times their space." |
—Sanford Pinsker, The Georgia Revie, |
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"A valuable contribution to American Letters."
—Norman Podhoretz |
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