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A collection of essays, first published in 1999, on Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.
Author : Michael P. Kramer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 1998-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521559027
A collection of essays, first published in 1999, on Saul Bellow's Seize the Day.
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0143194909
I’ll Seize the Day Tomorrow is the story of Jonathan Goldstein’s journey to find some great truth on his road to forty. In a series of wonderfully funny stories, the host of CBC’s WireTap recounts the highs and lows of his last year in his thirties. Throughout the year, Goldstein asks weighty questions that would stump a person less seasoned. For example: What is it about a McRib that drives people crazy? Can we replace extending an olive leaf with extending an olive jar? How much wisdom can we glean from episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter? His friends and family, many of them known through their appearances on WireTap, weigh in with hilarious results as Goldstein eats, sleeps, and watches bad TV all the way to his date with destiny.
Author : Kate Darian-Smith
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 9780980464801
"Printer Sydney University Publishing Service."
Author : Roman Krznaric
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2017-05-23
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1101983140
"Brilliant. One of those rare books that forces you to ask what the hell you're doing with your life." --George Monbiot, The Guardian **One of Forbes' 13 Best Books for Summer 2017** We've all heard the saying "seize the day." But what does it really mean--and how can we use it to jumpstart our lives? In the age of distraction, carpe diem is more essential than ever, and yet many of us simply don't employ it in our lives. In this thought-provoking and empowering book, cultural writer Roman Krznaric unpacks the history, philosophy, and modern-day applications of "seizing the day" and delivers a rousing call to action for anyone who wants to improve their lives--or our world. Carpe Diem is a far-ranging read, drawing on everything from the neuropsychology of regret to the anthropology of play, from medieval carnival rites to religious conceptions of the afterlife and early Japanese cinema. Offering food for thought as well as inspiring takeaways, the book examines not just the contributions of great thinkers throughout history, but also reveals insights from the lives of great seize-the-day practitioners including nightclub dancers, war photographers, bored housewives, and committed revolutionaries--offering a wide range of solutions to the daunting challenge of leading a meaningful life.
Author : Deborah Esch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2001-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521378338
This volume, first published in 2001, makes distinctive claims for the historical, critical, and theoretical significance of Wharton's breakthrough work.
Author : Mark Connelly
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476624852
A three-time National Book Award for Fiction winner, Saul Bellow (1915-2005) is one of the most highly regarded American authors to emerge since World War II. His 60-year career produced 14 novels and novellas, two volumes of nonfiction, short story collections, plays and a book of collected letters. His 1953 breakthrough novel The Adventures of Augie March was followed by Seize the Day (1956), Herzog (1964) and Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970). His Humboldt's Gift won a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 and contributed to his receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature that year. This literary companion provides more than 200 entries about his works, literary characters, events and persons in his life. Also included are an introduction and overview of Bellow's life, statements made by him during interviews, suggestions for writing and further study and an extensive bibliography.
Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 1996-06
Category : Genealogy
ISBN : 9780613172745
A middle-age American millionaire goes to Africa in search of a more meaningful life and receives the adoration of an African tribe that believes he has a gift for rainmaking
Author : S. Halldorson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2007-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230609783
This book sets out to write nothing short of a new theory of the heroic for today's world. It delves into the "why" of the hero as a natural companion piece to the "how" of the hero as written by Northrop Frye and Joseph Campbell over half a century ago. The novels of Saul Bellow and Don DeLillo serve as an anchor to the theory as it challenges our notions of what is heroic about nymphomaniacs, Holocaust survivors, spurious academics, cult followers, terrorists, celebrities, photographers and writers of novels who all attempt to claim the right to be "hero."
Author : Abigail Cheever
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 19,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820334294
Abigail Cheever examines the ways in which social influence was thought to deform individuals in midcentury American culture. Real Phonies examines the twinned phenomena of phoniness and authenticity—beginning with adolescents in the 1950s like Holly Golightly and Holden Caulfield, and ending with mid-career professionals in the 1990s, like sports agent Jerry Maguire.
Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107108934
This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.