In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930s and 40s, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories

In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811206808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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Eight stories portray the world of the New York intellectual during the 1930s and 40s, probing the conflict between ambitious, educated youths and their immigrant parents.

Screeno

Screeno PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811215732
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966) was one of the finest writers of his generation. Winner of the prestigious Bollingen prize and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award, he was hailed by John Ashbery as one of the major twentieth-century poets. Schwartz's stories were also widely read and loved, admired by James Atlas for their unique style that enabled Schwartz to depict his characters with a sort of childlike verisimilitude. Graced with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick, this New Directions Bibelot, Screeno: Stories and Poems, gathers many of Schwartz's most popular stories and poems, including: Screeno, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, America, America and The Heavy Bear who Goes with Me. Also included is a newly discovered story, The Heights of Joy, which appeared in the magazine Boulevard in 2002. Delmore Schwartz's life is legendary; yet it is his work that endures: What complicates and enriches Schwartz's comedy, says Irving Howe, is, I think, a reaching out toward nobility, a shy aspiring spirituality, a moment or two of achieved purity of feeling.

Selected Poems (1938-1958)

Selected Poems (1938-1958) PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201919
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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"Every point of view, every kind of knowledge and every kind of experience is limited and ignorant: nevertheless so far as l know, this volume seems to me to be as representative as it could be.---Delmore Schwartz

The Ego is Always at the Wheel

The Ego is Always at the Wheel PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811210287
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Drawn from the poet's collected papers at Yale University, these humorous essays touch on topics including taking baths and the meaning of existentialism, the abominations of the telephone, theories of Hamlet's behavior and Don Giovanni's promiscuity, and divorce.

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz

Last and Lost Poems of Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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Dreams of Distant Lives

Dreams of Distant Lives PDF Author: Lee K. Abbott
Publisher: White Pine Press
ISBN: 9781877727146
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"This is a writer whose language explores the range of life."--Bette Peretsky "Large in scope and meaning and unforgettable."--William Harrison

Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz

Once and for All: The Best of Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811224333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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The publication of this book restores a missing chapter in the history of twentieth-century American literature With his New Directions debut in 1938, the twenty-five-year-old Delmore Schwartz was hailed as a genius and among the most promising writers of his generation. Yet he died in relative obscurity in 1966, wracked by mental illness and substance abuse. Sadly, his literary legacy has been overshadowed by the story of his tragic life. Among poets, Schwartz was a prototype for the confessional movement made famous by his slightly younger friends Robert Lowell and John Berryman. While his stories and novellas about Jewish American experience laid the groundwork for novels by Saul Bellow (whose Humboldt’s Gift is based on Schwartz’s life) and Philip Roth. Much of Schwartz’s writing has been out of print for decades. This volume aims to restore Schwartz to his proper place in the canon of American literature and give new readers access to the breadth of his achievement. Included are selections from the in-print stories and poems, as well as excerpts from his long unavailable epic poem Genesis, a never-completed book-length work on T. S. Eliot, and unpublished poems from his archives.

Delmore Schwartz

Delmore Schwartz PDF Author: James Atlas
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374722692
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 489

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Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet is based on interviews, letters, and an extraordinary collection of unpublished papers that had never before been examined. Delmore Schwartz was only twenty-four in 1938 when his first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities, was published. He received praise from T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. For Tate, it was “the only genuine innovation we’ve had since Eliot and Pound.” A decade later, the short-story collection The World Is a Wedding was published; many critics characterized it as the definitive portrait of their generation. In this biography, the first about the man whom John Berryman called “the most underrated poet of the twentieth century,” James Atlas traces Schwartz’s history, from the arrival of his Romanian ancestors in New York, to his youth in Washington Heights, to his career at Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy, and onward to the flowering of his generation in the '40s, when he and the critics, poets, and novelists who were his friends made their reputations. Schwartz’s brilliant satires of his friends and acquaintances, his autobiographical stories, and his letters to his illustrious peers contribute to this vivid portrait of an era—and of that era’s most trenchant chronicler.

The World is a Wedding

The World is a Wedding PDF Author: Delmore Schwartz
Publisher: [Norfolk, Conn.] New Directions [1948]
ISBN:
Category : Short stories
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Short stories mostly about Jewish families during the depression.

Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images

Narration and Spectatorship in Moving Images PDF Author: Barbara Fisher Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443809217
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 281

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Philosophers and students of the arts have wondered since the time of Aristotle about the nature of aesthetic experience, and how this experience can seemingly be evoked by works of art. For more than a century producers and directors of motion pictures have made decisions about how to craft them based upon assumptions about complex stylistic devices and the effects such patterns of organization have on viewers. Over the past few years film scholars have made considerable progress in analyzing the manifold connections that exist between stylistic patterns and aesthetic effects for moving images of all kinds. In doing so, they have increasingly drawn upon insights and methodologies derived from psychology. The international conference from which this volume takes its contributions and its title, was organized to encourage the seeking of descriptive models pertaining to those elements of filmic construction that account for specific aesthetic experience. The focus of the current selection of twenty essays is therefore on the elements of filmic narration and their presumed aesthetic effects. The editors are pleased to strengthen the link between film studies and psychology in the interest of gaining tangible insight into the ancient mystery of the link between art and aesthetic experience.