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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays
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'These nonfiction works span from the 1960s to the 2000s and were produced by one of the great fiction writers of the period. They add critical depth to Shirley Hazzard's creative world and encapsulate her extensive and informed thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They also offer greater access to her brilliant craftsmanship and the multiple registers in which her writings operate. Hazzard writes about the manifold failings of the United Nations, where she worked in the early 1950s. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombings and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She presents her thoughts on the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature. These works contribute to a keener understanding of postwar letters, thought, and politics, supported by an introduction that situates Hazzard's writing within its historical context and emphasizes her influence on world literature. This collection confirms Hazzard's place within a network of writers, artists, and intellectuals who believe in the ongoing power of literature to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite - or maybe because of - the world's disheartening realities.' (Publication summary)

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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Columbia University Press ,
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      Extent: 256p.
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      • Published 5 January 2016
      ISBN: 9780231540797

Works about this Work

Brigitta Olubas, Editor, Shirley Hazzard : We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think Bernadette Brennan , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;

'Few JASAL readers will be unfamiliar with Brigitta Olubas’s extensive scholarship on Shirley Hazzards life and work. In 2012, Olubas published the monograph Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. That same year she convened a Hazzard symposium at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Papers from that event were later collected in Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays (2014). Now, in We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays, Olubas takes readers on a geographical, political and literary tour of Hazzard’s life and mind.' (Introduction)

Hearing the Splash : The Stately Seriousness of Shirley Hazzard Brian Matthews , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 381 2016; (p. 12-13)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
A Writer at Ease in the World and on the Page A. P. Riemer , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 23-24 April 2016; (p. 26) The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 April 2016; (p. 26)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
Timeless Virtues Geordie Williamson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2016; (p. 16)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
Timeless Virtues Geordie Williamson , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 March 2016; (p. 16)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
A Writer at Ease in the World and on the Page A. P. Riemer , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 23-24 April 2016; (p. 26) The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 April 2016; (p. 26)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
Hearing the Splash : The Stately Seriousness of Shirley Hazzard Brian Matthews , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 381 2016; (p. 12-13)

— Review of We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think : Selected Essays Shirley Hazzard , 2016 selected work essay
Brigitta Olubas, Editor, Shirley Hazzard : We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think Bernadette Brennan , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 17 no. 2 2018;

'Few JASAL readers will be unfamiliar with Brigitta Olubas’s extensive scholarship on Shirley Hazzards life and work. In 2012, Olubas published the monograph Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist. That same year she convened a Hazzard symposium at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Papers from that event were later collected in Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays (2014). Now, in We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays, Olubas takes readers on a geographical, political and literary tour of Hazzard’s life and mind.' (Introduction)

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