Poet And Businessman

Author : Leif Stenberg
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781914983016

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Poet and Businessman by Leif Stenberg Pdf

A history of contemporary Kuwait as seen through the life of an individual Kuwaiti. This book reviews and analyzes the modern history of Kuwait through the life of Abd al-Aziz Sa‘ud al-Babtain, a wealthy businessman, philanthropist, and poet. He is the head of a large, influential international cultural foundation based in Kuwait City. Abd al-Aziz’s life story tightly interweaves with modern discussions on the history of the state of Kuwait. There are very few books taking a collective grip on the history of the state of Kuwait. Likewise, there are very few studies about the generation of Gulf individuals who experienced, benefitted from, and even suffered from the discovery of oil, and who has been a crucial part of socioeconomic and cultural developments in countries like Kuwait in recent history. By constructing a cohesive overview of the modern history of Kuwait enriched by the life of an individual that has lived through the better part of that particular history, this book fills a lacuna in contemporary scholarship on the Middle East, and especially the Arabian or the Persian Gulf.

Author : Eugene O'Neill
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300107791

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Collected Shorter Plays by Eugene O'Neill Pdf

O'Neill's themes and concerns find expression in his one-act plays which are the dramatic equivalent of short stories. Here are nine one-act plays that span the playwright's career.

Author : Elizabeth H. Oakes
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438108094

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American Writers by Elizabeth H. Oakes Pdf

"American Writers focuses on the rich diversity of American novelists

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191589324

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The Modern Poet by Robert Crawford Pdf

Addressed to all readers of poetry, this is a wide-ranging book about the poet's role throughout the last three centuries. It argues that a conception of the poets as both primitive and sophisticated emerged in the 1750s. Encouraged by the classroom when English literary works began to be studied in universities, this view continues to shape our own attitudes towards verse. Whether considering Ossian and the Romantics, Victorian scholar-gipsies, Modernist poetries of knowledge, or contemporary poetry in Britian, Ireland, and America, The Modern Poet shows how many successive generations of poets have needed to collaborate and to battle with academia.

Author : Earl F. Bargainnier
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879722509

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Twelve Englishmen of Mystery by Earl F. Bargainnier Pdf

There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.

Author : James W. Hamilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429915673

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Life and Art by James W. Hamilton Pdf

In this volume an inquiry into the nature of the creative process is attempted by paying close attention to the lives of various artists, poets, novelists and playwrights, and selected works of each in order to demonstrate an essential relationship between the two, and that it is most difficult to delineate the nuances of the creative act by treating them as separate entitites. Emphasis is placed upon the effect of early trauma, such as object loss and various forms of deprivation, as a powerful unconscious motivating factor and upon the dream and transitional object as facilitators of the creative effort.

Author : Joel Pfister
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780807863855

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Staging Depth by Joel Pfister Pdf

Until now, Eugene O'Neill's psychological dramas have been analyzed mainly by critics who relied on obvious parallels between O'Neill's life, his family, and his plays. In this theoretically expansive and interdisciplinary book, Joel Pfister reassesses what was at stake ideologically in O'Neill's staging and modernizing of 'psychological' individualism for his social class. Pfister examines the history of the middle-class family and of Freudian pop psychology in the 1910s and 1920s to reconstruct the cultural conditions for the imagining and popularizing of 'depth,' a trope that was central to O'Neill's dramatic vision. He also recovers provocative critiques by contemporary critics on the Left who challenged O'Neill's preoccupation with dramatizing psychological, familial, and aesthetic 'depth.' One of the few sustained works on O'Neill in recent years, this wide-ranging book makes a major contribution to cultural studies, to the history of subjectivity, and to scholarship on the ideological origins of modernism and modern American drama. Originally published in 1995. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Guiyou Huang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313011313

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Asian American Poets by Guiyou Huang Pdf

Even though Asian American literature is enjoying an impressive critical popularity, attention has focused primarily on longer narrative forms such as the novel. And despite the proliferation of a large number of poets of Asian descent in the 20th century, Asian American poetry remains a neglected area of study. Poetry as an elite genre has not reached the level of popularity of the novel or short story, partly due to the difficulties of reading and interpreting poetic texts. The lack of criticism on Asian American poetry speaks to the urgent need for scholarship in this area, since perhaps more than any other genre, poetry most forcefully captures the intense feelings and emotions that Asian Americans have experienced about themselves and their world. This reference book overviews the tremendous cultural contributions of Asian American poets. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on 48 American poets of Asian descent, most of whom have been active during the latter half of the 20th century. Each entry begins with a short biography, which sometimes includes information drawn from personal interviews. The entries then discuss the poet's major works and themes, including such concerns as family, racism, sexism, identity, language, and politics. A survey of the poet's critical reception follows. In many cases the existing criticism is scant, and the entries offer new readings of neglected works. The entries conclude with bibliographies of primary and secondary texts, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1545100608

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The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. The story questions the concept of a self-made man. This short story, written by Poe, looks through the perspective of a businessman. The narrator of this story, Peter Proffit, considers himself an upstanding businessman who is a stickler for order. He curses intellectual types, whom he calls 'geniuses' because he believes that they are wasting their time in their respective fields. He holds them in great disdain because they never want to follow rules blindly, and instead analyze things and read into rules too deeply. It is for these reasons that the narrator believes that they cannot be turned into businessmen.

Author : Marlisa Santos
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810892101

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Verse, Voice, and Vision by Marlisa Santos Pdf

Although it is a somewhat underrepresented form of literature in popular sensibility, poetry finds relevance in the modern world through its appearance in cinema. Film adaptations of poems and depictions of poets on the screen date back to the silent era and continue to the present day. However, there have been few serious studies of how cinema has represented the world of poetic expression. In Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema, Marlisa Santos has compiled essays that explore the relationship between one of the world’s oldest art forms—poetry—and one of the world’s newest art forms—film. The book is divided into three sections: poets on film, poetry as film, and film as poetry. Topics include analyses of poet biopics (such as Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle), filmic representations of poets or poetic studies (including Pyaasa), films inspired by particular poems (such as Splendor in the Grass), and the avant-garde phenomenon of the “poem-film” (such as The Tree of Life). Poetic influences considered in this volume range from William Shakespeare to e.e. cummings, and the films discussed hail from several different countries, including the U.S., the U.K., India, China, Italy, and Argentina. Featuring a great diversity in the age, genres, and countries of origin of the films, these essays provide an in-depth look at how poetry has been interpreted on film over the years. By addressing a heretofore unexamined aspect of film studies, Verse, Voice, and Vision will appeal to fans and scholars of both literature and cinema.

Author : Jay Gertzman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0812217985

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Bookleggers and Smuthounds by Jay Gertzman Pdf

This first examination of the trade in erotica during the 1920s and '30s provides an understanding of the evolution of both obscenity law and sexual explicitness in literature, and raises fascinating questions about moral control, idealism, and the marketplace in ways that continue to resonate today.

Author : Thierry Dubost
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781476677286

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Eugene O'Neill and the Reinvention of Theatre Aesthetics by Thierry Dubost Pdf

 The plays of Eugene O'Neill testify to his continued search for new dramatic strategies. The author explores the Nobel Prize winner's attempts at creating a new Modern play. He shows how, moving away from melodrama or "the problem play," O'Neill revisited the classical frames of drama and reinvented theater aesthetics by resorting to masks, the chorus, acoustics, silence or immobility for the creation of his dramatic works.

Author : Jay A. Gertzman
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813059167

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Samuel Roth, Infamous Modernist by Jay A. Gertzman Pdf

Samuel Roth is known to most literary scholars as a bold literary "pirate" for issuing unauthorized editions of modernist sensations, including Ulysses and Lady Chatterley’s Lover. In the absence of an international copyright agreement and because works deemed obscene could not be copyrighted, what he did was not illegal. But it did violate the protocols of mutual fair dealing between publishers and authors. Those publications provoked an unprecedented international protest of writers, publishers, and intellectuals, who eventually vilified Roth on two continents. Roth was a man with an uncanny ability to recognize good contemporary writing and make it accessible to popular audiences. Ultimately, his dedication to the publication of these works broke down many of the censorship laws of the time, though he suffered greatly for his efforts. His story portrays a struggle with literary censorship in the mid-twentieth century while providing insights into how modernism was marketed in America.

Author : Paul Duane Voelker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89092567528

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The Early Plays of Eugene O'Neill, 1913-1915 by Paul Duane Voelker Pdf

Author : Baxter Black
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780762769148

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Lessons from a Desperado Poet by Baxter Black Pdf

Part memoir, part how-to, all Baxter Black, Lessons from a Desperado Poet is a humorous, witty take on making a living by doing the right thing and trying everything. According to Baxter Black, success “does not require a genius; it just requires the persistence of a glacier. Remember, often it’s not ability that gets you ahead, it’s reliability. The world is run by those who show up.” Lessons from a Desperado Poet leaves a trail of self-improvement and motivational tortilla crumbs that readers will follow with delight—before, that is, squirreling them away in their own cerebral pockets for later use.