Author: Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628975499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Love and Death in the American Novel
Author: Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN: 9781628975499
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Love and Death in the American Novel
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher: 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
Too Good to be True
Author: Mark Royden WinchellPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826262775
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Leslie Fiedler and American Culture
Author: Steven G. KellmanPublisher: 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
Freaks
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher: Touchstone
ISBN: 9780671248475
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Tyranny of the Normal
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher: 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.
Fiedler on the Roof
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher: 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:
The Stranger in Shakespeare
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780586081426
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Identifies four archetypal stranger figures in the plays and sonnets - the Woman, the Black Man, the Native, the Jew.
The New Mutants
Author: Ramzi FawazPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147982349X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions. In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie Fiedler described American youth as “new mutants,” social rebels severing their attachments to American culture to remake themselves in their own image. 1960s comic book creators, anticipating Fiedler, began to morph American superheroes from icons of nationalism and white masculinity into actual mutant outcasts, defined by their genetic difference from ordinary humanity. These powerful misfits and “freaks” soon came to embody the social and political aspirations of America’s most marginalized groups, including women, racial and sexual minorities, and the working classes. In The New Mutants, Ramzi Fawaz draws upon queer theory to tell the story of these monstrous fantasy figures and how they grapple with radical politics from Civil Rights and The New Left to Women’s and Gay Liberation Movements. Through a series of comic book case studies—including The Justice League of America, The Fantastic Four, The X-Men, and The New Mutants—alongside late 20th century fan writing, cultural criticism, and political documents, Fawaz reveals how the American superhero modeled new forms of social belonging that counterculture youth would embrace in the 1960s and after. The New Mutants provides the first full-length study to consider the relationship between comic book fantasy and radical politics in the modern United States.
What was Literature?
Author: Leslie A. FiedlerPublisher: 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.