Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination
Worth buying if: You enjoy literary essays that connect artistic imagination with political questions.
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Summary
Art and Anger: Essays on Politics and the Imagination examines the relationship between creative work and political feeling through the essay form. Published by the University of New Mexico Press in 1996.
Why this book now
Questions about how imagination responds to political conflict remain as urgent as the title’s pairing of art and anger.
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- You enjoy literary essays that connect artistic imagination with political questions.
- You prefer books that pursue an argument through multiple focused essays rather than a single sustained narrative.
- You are looking for a novel, memoir, or plot-driven reading experience.
- You want a recent account of contemporary politics rather than a 1996 collection.
- You only want something with very current references and examples.
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Exact edition: Edition shown · ISBN-13 9780826317445
Worth buying if: You enjoy literary essays that connect artistic imagination with political questions.
Skip it if: You are looking for a novel, memoir, or plot-driven reading experience.
Check Amazon for the current price and availability of this exact edition.
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Reading commitment
Light Short sit-downs
At 253 pages, this is a substantial but bounded essay collection that can be read straight through or in selected pieces.
What stands out here
This record identifies a 1996 University of New Mexico Press edition running 253 pages.
Best way to approach it
Read it as a sequence of arguments, pausing to consider how each essay links artistic imagination to political feeling.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780826317445
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