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Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism
Author | : Mohammad A. Quayum |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Jews in literature |
ISBN | : 0820436526 |
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Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism explores Saul Bellow's moral and philosophical affinity with the writers of American transcendentalism, especially Emerson and Whitman. Its focus is on the «vintage» Bellow, or his «mature» novels, from Henderson the Rain King (1959) to The Dean's December (1982). In these novels, Bellow highlights a moral crisis, arising from humankind's despiritualization and dehumanization, which, he believes, is responsible for an ongoing dichotomy in the modern world. Bellow describes this as a dichotomy of the «Cleans» and the «Dirties», in the context of American culture. To rectify this dichotomy and redeem humankind from its current «death-ridden» state, Bellow and his protagonists advance a vision of life that corresponds to the transcendental vision of dialogue and «double consciousness», or coordination and balance. Like Emerson, they advocate, «The mid-world is best... A man is a golden impossibility; the line he must walk is a hair's breadth». Comparable to Whitman, they urge the individual to «knit the knot of contrariety» and act as «an arbiter of the diverse».
The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow
Author | : Victoria Aarons |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107108936 |
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This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.
Saul Bellow Against the Grain
Author | : Ellen Pifer |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0812213696 |
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Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is fundamentally radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, he undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Charged by his belief in the soul, his 10 novels test the assumptions of traditional realism. Pifer stresses the importance to Bellow of the invisible world, the longing for revelation, and the capacity to love and to suffer. She also shows how Bellow's hero is a man torn between his modern predilection for secular rationalism and a primordial attachment to the soul, and how he is led to demolish reigning idols of contemporary thought and culture. ISBN 0-8122-8203-5: $29.95.
Malaysian Literature in English
Author | : Mohammad A. Quayum |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781527551985 |
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This collection of essays brings together work by some of the most internationally acclaimed critics of Malaysian literature in English from different parts of the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. It investigates the works of major writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on thematic and stylistic trends. The book pays particular attention to issues such as gender, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora, hybridity and transnationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English, first introduced by the colonisers, has experienced a mixed fate of ups and downs in the post-independence period, due to the changing, and sometimes strikingly different, policies adopted by the government. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, Southeast Asian studies and postcolonial literatures.
Both Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature
Author | : Heinz Dietrich Fischer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Nobel Prize winners |
ISBN | : 9783643963505 |
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This volume presents nine authors awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to biographical sketches of each laureate, emphasis is given to the decision making processes by juries for the Pulitzer awards in New York as well as the discussions within the Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm. Main parts of the Nobel Lectures by the recipients follow, and each winner is characterized by one of his most important works, including a content synopsis and style samples. Necessary background materials came from the Pulitzer Prize Archive at Columbia University, New York, and the Nobel Prize Archive of the Swedish Academy, Stockholm.
Mapping the World of Anglo American Studies at the Turn of the Century
Author | : Marija Knežević |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781443884181 |
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This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language’s status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be problematized in, and determined by, other spheres of the world, especially at the universities at which they are studied. This book, consequently, approaches both mainstream cultural, literary, linguistic and academic achievements and, often by way of comparison, those smaller, more distant, and marginalized fields, traditionally subordinate studies, as well as instances of cultural hybridization. Given its concern with a broad field of culture, literature, linguistics, and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, this book consists of two main parts comprising the closest research and teaching fields; one attending to culture and literature, and the other approaching linguistics and methodology.
American Literary Scholarship
Author | : James Leslie Woodress |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : UOM:39015066260798 |
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