Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
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The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
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The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
Author: Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
ISBN: 9780812813333
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub
ISBN: 9780812813333
Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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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
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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.
A New Fiedler Reader
Author: Leslie Fiedler
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615925007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Leslie Fiedler''s radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century," Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homoerotic element in American machismo, interracial dependence as the classical American bond, those on the social margins being "secret selves," and the continuum of "high" and "low" culture.Designed to delight Fiedler''s contemporary audience and introduce the author to a whole new generation of readers, A New Fiedler Reader is a captivating anthology of Fiedler''s most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his engaging poems and short fiction.A literary icon, Fiedler is among those who urged legalization of marijuana in the late ''60s; suggested that college students read Timothy Leary along with Milton; and was accused of corrupting the young with dangerous leftist ideas. Collected are Fiedler''s most widely known articles, from "Come Back to the Raft Ag''in, Huck Honey!" to "An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum." Complementing these essays are various lesser known poems and short stories, providing the reader with the complete Fiedler experience.
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615925007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Leslie Fiedler''s radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century," Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homoerotic element in American machismo, interracial dependence as the classical American bond, those on the social margins being "secret selves," and the continuum of "high" and "low" culture.Designed to delight Fiedler''s contemporary audience and introduce the author to a whole new generation of readers, A New Fiedler Reader is a captivating anthology of Fiedler''s most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his engaging poems and short fiction.A literary icon, Fiedler is among those who urged legalization of marijuana in the late ''60s; suggested that college students read Timothy Leary along with Milton; and was accused of corrupting the young with dangerous leftist ideas. Collected are Fiedler''s most widely known articles, from "Come Back to the Raft Ag''in, Huck Honey!" to "An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum." Complementing these essays are various lesser known poems and short stories, providing the reader with the complete Fiedler experience.
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:
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
The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedles
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The Lime Twig
Author: John Hawkes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."