The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler
Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : Stein & Day Pub
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : English essays
ISBN : 9780812813333
Tyranny of the Normal
Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781567920031
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.
Fiedler on the Roof
Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780879238599
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:
The Devil Gets His Due
Author : Leslie Fiedler
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1582436533
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.
Love and Death in the American Novel
Author : Leslie A. Fiedler
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564781635
Book Description
"No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
Author : Steven G. Kellman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,48 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874136890
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
The Works of Alain Locke
Author : Charles Molesworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2012-07-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199970386
Book Description
With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As an author, editor, and patron, Locke rightly earned the appellation "Godfather of the Harlem Renaissance." Yet, his intellectual contributions extend far beyond that single period of cultural history. Throughout his life he penned essays, on topics ranging from John Keats to Sigmund Freud, in addition to his trenchant social commentary on race and society. The Works of Alain Locke provides the largest collection available of his brilliant essays, gathered from a career that spanned forty years. They cover an impressively broad field of subjects: philosophy, literature, the visual arts, music, the theory of value, race, politics, and multiculturalism. Alongside seminal works such as "The New Negro" the volume features essays like "The Ethics of Culture," "Apropos of Africa," and "Pluralism and Intellectual Democracy." Together, these writings demonstrate Locke's standing as the leading African American thinker between W. E. B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King, Jr. The foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the introduction by
The Tyranny of the Normal
Author : Carol C. Donley
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 26,49 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780873385350
Book Description
A study of the experiences of those who live outside social norms for beauty, size and shape, as well as the reactions of normal people to those who appear grotesque. The text contains essays on treating those with disorders or deformities, and over 40 stories, poems and plays about abnormality.
Leslie Fiedler
Author : Prem Kumari Srivastava
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786463511
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 Diamond as Big as the Ritz
Author : Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz is a novella by novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was first published in the June 1922 issue of The Smart Set magazine, and was included in Fitzgerald's 1922 short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. Much of the story is set in Montana, a setting that may have been inspired by the summer that Fitzgerald spent near White Sulphur Springs, Montana in 1915. Orson Welles adapted the story into a radio play in 1945 and another version was presented three times on the program Escape between 1947 and 1949. A teleplay version was broadcast on Kraft Theatre in 1955. The story's sisters, Kismine and Jasmine, were portrayed by Lee Remick and Elizabeth Montgomery, who were unknowns of 20 and 22 at the time. Mickey Mouse No. 47 (Apr./May 1956) contains a retelling of Fitzgerald's story under the title "The Mystery of Diamond Mountain", scripted by William F. Nolan and Charles Beaumont and illustrated by Paul Murry. Jimmy Buffett recounts the story in the song "Diamond As Big As The Ritz" from his 1995 album Barometer Soup. Famous novells of the author F. S. Fitzgerald: "This Side of Paradise", "The Beautiful and Damned", "The Great Gatsby", "Tender Is the Night", "The Last Tycoon", "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "May Day", "The Rich Boy".
