Author: Ruby ChatterjiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature
Author: Sidney FinkelsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Existential America
Author: George CotkinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801870378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
"As Cotkin shows, not only did Americans readily take to existentialism, but they were already heirs to a rich tradition of thinkers - from Jonathan Edwards and Herman Melville to Emily Dickinson and William James - who had wrestled with the problems of existence and the contingency of the world long before Sartre and his colleagues. After introducing the concept of an American existential tradition, Cotkin examines how formal existentialism first arrived in America in the 1930s through discussion of Kierkegaard and the early vogue among New York intellectuals for the works of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Camus.
Existentialist Thought in African American Literature before 1940
Author: Melvin G. HillPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498514812
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 111
Book Description
Existentialist Thought in African American Literature Before 1940 is the first collection of its kind to break new ground in arguing that long before its classification by Jean-Paul Sartre, African American literature embodied existentialist thought. To make its case, this daring book dissects eight notable texts: Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Sojourner Truth’s Ain’t I A Woman (1861), Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl (1861), Sutton E. Griggs’s Imperium in Imperio (1899), James Weldon Johnson’s Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and Nella Larsen’s Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929). It explores and addresses a wide range of complex philosophical concepts such as: authenticity, potentiality-for-authentic living, bad faith, and existentialism from the Christian point of view. The use of interdisciplinary studies such as gender studies, queer studies, Christian ethics, mixed-race studies, and existentialism, allows the authors within this book to lend unique perspectives in examining selected African American literary works.
Apostles of Sartre
Author: Ann FultonPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810112902
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
A jargon-free examination of a significant chapter in the history of ideas. The book should be of interest to both the Sartre specialist and the general reader.
Existentialism in American Literature
Author: Ruby ChatterjiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Humanistic Existentialism
Author: Hazel Estella BarnesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803252295
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Click for larger cover scan Humanistic Existentialism The Literature of Possibility Paper: 1959, X, 419, CIP.LC 59-11732 ISBN: 0-8032-5229-3 Price: $29.95 University of Nebraska Press -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This study in humanistic existentialism is highly informative as well as entertaining. It is a scholarly, detailed analysis of the literary art, the philosophical ideas, and the psychologies of Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. It is also a competent effort to explain the positive implications for the theory of freedom and possibility which lie half buried under this literature of nothingness, alienation, and absurdity. . . . Miss Barnes makes thoroughly enjoyable reading of a subject-matter which might have seemed forbidding."--Herbert W. Schneider, Journal of Philosophy. "Recommended unqualifiedly as the most thorough and reliable exposition of the works of Sartre, Camus, and de Beauvoir to have appeared in this country."--Willard Colston, Chicago Sun-Times. "Those who want a real understanding of existentialism instead of the usual superficial generalizations are certain to gain it from this book."--Walter Kaufmann, The American Scholar. "The book captures much of the forlorn dark grandeur of the existentialist vision of the human condition."--Yale Review. "The philosophy of Sartre is presented accurately and with rare elegance and simplicity. . . . The section on psychoanalysis compares Sartre to Freud, then to Horney and Fromm, then to the phenomenologists. The treatment is fair-minded and careful."--Robert Champigny, L'Esprit Crateur.
Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature
Author: Sidney FinkelsteinPublisher: New York : International Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Existentialism and Alienation in American Literature
Author: S. W. FinkelsteinAmerican Writers
Author: Elizabeth H. OakesPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108095
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
"American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists
American Fiction Since 1940
Author: Tony HilferPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317871251
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In this remarkable book, Tony Hilfer provides a major survey of the wealth of post-war American fiction. He analyses the major modes and genres of writing, from realist to postmodernist metafiction and black humour, the fiction of social protest, women's writing, and the traditions of African-American, Southern and Jewish-American fiction. Key writers discussed include William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Vladimir Nabokov and Joyce Carol Oates. The book concludes by exploring contemporary trends through detailed case-studies of Donald Barthelme and Toni Morrison.