Author: Steven G. Kellman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Leslie Fiedler and American culture have made a tumultuous marriage throughout much of the twentieth century. Fiedler's prolific career, as scholar, critic, novelist, memoirist, translator, and professor, has been a series of provocations." "Leslie Fiedler and American Culture marks the start of its subject's ninth decade. The first such collection devoted entirely to Fiedler, it gathers together spirited responses to his work by scholars, critics, and poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
Author: Steven G. Kellman
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Leslie Fiedler and American culture have made a tumultuous marriage throughout much of the twentieth century. Fiedler's prolific career, as scholar, critic, novelist, memoirist, translator, and professor, has been a series of provocations." "Leslie Fiedler and American Culture marks the start of its subject's ninth decade. The first such collection devoted entirely to Fiedler, it gathers together spirited responses to his work by scholars, critics, and poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874136890
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
"Leslie Fiedler and American culture have made a tumultuous marriage throughout much of the twentieth century. Fiedler's prolific career, as scholar, critic, novelist, memoirist, translator, and professor, has been a series of provocations." "Leslie Fiedler and American Culture marks the start of its subject's ninth decade. The first such collection devoted entirely to Fiedler, it gathers together spirited responses to his work by scholars, critics, and poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Love and Death in the American Novel
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781564781635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
Love and Death in the American Novel
Author:
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628975499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628975499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Too Good to be True
Author: Mark Royden Winchell
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
What was Literature?
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In a rambling series of essays -- partly analytical, partly polemical, and partly autobiographical -- Fiedler takes issue with the elitist and prescriptive tendency among the self-appointed guardians of art, and with the modern split between 'high' and 'low' forms of literature. He argues that traditional approaches to and standards of literature have become obsolete, and a criticism which ignores or condescends to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone with the Wind, Roots et alia can have little to say about American culture.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In a rambling series of essays -- partly analytical, partly polemical, and partly autobiographical -- Fiedler takes issue with the elitist and prescriptive tendency among the self-appointed guardians of art, and with the modern split between 'high' and 'low' forms of literature. He argues that traditional approaches to and standards of literature have become obsolete, and a criticism which ignores or condescends to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone with the Wind, Roots et alia can have little to say about American culture.
Sideshow U.S.A.
Author: Rachel Adams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226005399
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. This book reveals the image of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing specimens.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226005399
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
A staple of American popular culture during the 19th and early 20th centuries, the freak show seemed to vanish after World War II. This book reveals the image of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, horrific and amusing specimens.
Fiedler on the Roof
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879238599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following relate, in varying degrees, to the subject of antisemitism in literary circles and in literature:
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879238599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following relate, in varying degrees, to the subject of antisemitism in literary circles and in literature:
Leslie Fiedler
Author: Prem Kumari Srivastava
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786463511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory. This book traces the evolution of this larger-than-life figure through an extensive examination of his works. Beginning with his homoerotic reading of the relationship between Jim and Huck Finn in the Mark Twain novel, this book covers how his many contributions have been provocative, outrageous, novel, and enduring.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786463511
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory. This book traces the evolution of this larger-than-life figure through an extensive examination of his works. Beginning with his homoerotic reading of the relationship between Jim and Huck Finn in the Mark Twain novel, this book covers how his many contributions have been provocative, outrageous, novel, and enduring.
The Devil Gets His Due
Author: Leslie Fiedler
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582436533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Despite his often-unacknowledged influence, academics, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read Leslie Fiedler’s work and draw on its concepts. He inspired both reverence (Leonard Cohen penned: "leaning over the American moonlight / like the shyest gargoyle / who will not become angry or old") and rage (Saul Bellow called him "the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature"). The essays in The Devil Gets His Due will reacquaint readers with the depth and breadth of Fiedler’s achievements. Tackling subjects ranging wildly from Dante, Ezra Pound, and Mary McCarthy to Rambo, Iwo Jima, and Jerry Lewis, these writings showcase Fiedler’s pioneering of an egalitarian canon that encompassed both "high" and popular literature, cinema, and history. As such, they show a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of a culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today. A lengthy introduction by Professor Samuele F. S. Pardini offers both context and history, with an in-depth profile of Fiedler and his career as both a literary critic and a public intellectual.
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1582436533
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Despite his often-unacknowledged influence, academics, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read Leslie Fiedler’s work and draw on its concepts. He inspired both reverence (Leonard Cohen penned: "leaning over the American moonlight / like the shyest gargoyle / who will not become angry or old") and rage (Saul Bellow called him "the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature"). The essays in The Devil Gets His Due will reacquaint readers with the depth and breadth of Fiedler’s achievements. Tackling subjects ranging wildly from Dante, Ezra Pound, and Mary McCarthy to Rambo, Iwo Jima, and Jerry Lewis, these writings showcase Fiedler’s pioneering of an egalitarian canon that encompassed both "high" and popular literature, cinema, and history. As such, they show a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of a culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today. A lengthy introduction by Professor Samuele F. S. Pardini offers both context and history, with an in-depth profile of Fiedler and his career as both a literary critic and a public intellectual.
Tyranny of the Normal
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920031
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Bound together by the common thread of bioethics, these essays encompass such issues as abortion, the removal of life support, the role that doctors play in our society, and how we confront old age and Eros. Controversial, at times infuriating, Leslie Fiedler's comments are sure to anger parties on all sides; but they will also appeal to anyone who appreciates the unorthodox insights of an inquisitive and voracious mind.
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920031
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Bound together by the common thread of bioethics, these essays encompass such issues as abortion, the removal of life support, the role that doctors play in our society, and how we confront old age and Eros. Controversial, at times infuriating, Leslie Fiedler's comments are sure to anger parties on all sides; but they will also appeal to anyone who appreciates the unorthodox insights of an inquisitive and voracious mind.