Deresiewicz takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with demands for perfect grades and culminates in the skewed applications received by college admissions committees.
What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These are the questions that William Deresiewicz has been pursuing over the course of his award-winning career.
So which account is true? Since people are still making a living as artists today, how are they managing to do it? William Deresiewicz, a leading critic of the arts and of contemporary culture, set out to answer those questions.
Through close readings of Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion, Deresiewicz reveals the importance of Romantic ideas in Austen's later work, considering the ways in which the novels investigate hidden mechanisms of psychic and affective ...
An eloquent memoir of a young man's life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education, Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author's novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within.
Entonces, ¿qué relato es el verdadero? ¿Cómo se las arreglan los artistas para ganarse la vida hoy en día? Deresiewicz, un destacado crítico de arte y de la cultura contemporánea, se propuso responder a estas preguntas.
¿Es el universitario una oveja, que hay que unir a un buen rebaño para que alcance una buena posición económica? ¿Eso es todo, o casi todo? Deresiewicz denuncia carencias, interpela, incomoda.
Quando William Deresiewicz, all'età di ventisette anni, scopre Jane Austen, è un giovane presuntuoso, sentimentalmente immaturo e persuaso che quei «romanzetti da femmine» non facciano di certo per lui.