Saul Bellow And American Transcendentalism

Author : Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Jews in literature
ISBN : 0820436526

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Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism by Mohammad A. Quayum Pdf

Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism explores Saul Bellow's moral and philosophical affinity with the writers of American transcendentalism, especially Emerson and Whitman. Its focus is on the «vintage» Bellow, or his «mature» novels, from Henderson the Rain King (1959) to The Dean's December (1982). In these novels, Bellow highlights a moral crisis, arising from humankind's despiritualization and dehumanization, which, he believes, is responsible for an ongoing dichotomy in the modern world. Bellow describes this as a dichotomy of the «Cleans» and the «Dirties», in the context of American culture. To rectify this dichotomy and redeem humankind from its current «death-ridden» state, Bellow and his protagonists advance a vision of life that corresponds to the transcendental vision of dialogue and «double consciousness», or coordination and balance. Like Emerson, they advocate, «The mid-world is best... A man is a golden impossibility; the line he must walk is a hair's breadth». Comparable to Whitman, they urge the individual to «knit the knot of contrariety» and act as «an arbiter of the diverse».

Author : Victoria Aarons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107108936

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The Cambridge Companion to Saul Bellow by Victoria Aarons Pdf

This book demonstrates the complexity of Bellow's work by emphasizing the ways in which it reflects the changing conditions of American identity.

Author : Ellen Pifer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1991-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812213696

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Saul Bellow Against the Grain by Ellen Pifer Pdf

Pifer contends that Bellow's fiction is fundamentally radical. Going against the grain of contemporary culture and its secular pieties, he undermines accepted notions of reality and challenges the "orthodoxies" created by materialist values and rationalist thought. Charged by his belief in the soul, his 10 novels test the assumptions of traditional realism. Pifer stresses the importance to Bellow of the invisible world, the longing for revelation, and the capacity to love and to suffer. She also shows how Bellow's hero is a man torn between his modern predilection for secular rationalism and a primordial attachment to the soul, and how he is led to demolish reigning idols of contemporary thought and culture. ISBN 0-8122-8203-5: $29.95.

Author : 吴笛总,吴笛等
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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外国文学经典生成与传播研究（第八卷）当代卷（下） by 吴笛总,吴笛等 Pdf

本书主要从当代重要作家作品个案研究入手，探讨当代外国文学经典的生成与传播。书中分别从奥登、弗罗斯特、塞克斯顿、特德·休斯的诗歌经典为例证，展示当代西方诗歌的精神渊源，探寻索尔·贝娄、帕斯捷尔纳克、纳博科夫等当代作家代表作品的经典化历程。

Author : Philip F. Gura
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429922883

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American Transcendentalism by Philip F. Gura Pdf

The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their intellectual genealogy to transatlantic religious and philosophical ideas, illustrating how these informed the fierce local theological debates that, so often first in Massachusetts and eventually throughout America, gave rise to practical, personal, and quixotic attempts to improve, even perfect the world. The transcendentalists would painfully bifurcate over what could be attained and how, one half epitomized by Ralph Waldo Emerson and stressing self-reliant individualism, the other by Orestes Brownson, George Ripley, and Theodore Parker, emphasizing commitment to the larger social good. By the 1850s, the uniquely American problem of slavery dissolved differences as transcendentalists turned ever more exclusively to abolition. Along with their early inheritance from European Romanticism, America's transcendentalists abandoned their interest in general humanitarian reform. By war's end, transcendentalism had become identified exclusively with Emersonian self-reliance, congruent with the national ethos of political liberalism and market capitalism.

Author : Eberhard Alsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317776000

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The New Romanticism by Eberhard Alsen Pdf

The New Romanticism is an overview of the romantic trend taken up by American novelists in the twentieth-century. Includes three classic essays by Saul bellow, Thomas Pyncheon, and Toni Morrison.

Author : Mohammad A. Quayum
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527551985

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Malaysian Literature in English by Mohammad A. Quayum Pdf

This collection of essays brings together work by some of the most internationally acclaimed critics of Malaysian literature in English from different parts of the world, including Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the US. It investigates the works of major writers of the tradition in the genres of drama, fiction and poetry, from its beginnings to the present, focusing mainly on thematic and stylistic trends. The book pays particular attention to issues such as gender, ethnicity, nationalism, multiculturalism, diaspora, hybridity and transnationalism, which are central to the creativity and imagination of these writers. The chapters collectively address the challenges and achievements of writers in the English language in a country where English, first introduced by the colonisers, has experienced a mixed fate of ups and downs in the post-independence period, due to the changing, and sometimes strikingly different, policies adopted by the government. The book will be of interest to readers and researchers of Malaysian literature, Southeast Asian studies and postcolonial literatures.

Author : Heinz Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Nobel Prize winners
ISBN : 9783643963505

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Both Pulitzer and Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature by Heinz Dietrich Fischer Pdf

This volume presents nine authors awarded both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. In addition to biographical sketches of each laureate, emphasis is given to the decision making processes by juries for the Pulitzer awards in New York as well as the discussions within the Nobel Prize committees in Stockholm. Main parts of the Nobel Lectures by the recipients follow, and each winner is characterized by one of his most important works, including a content synopsis and style samples. Necessary background materials came from the Pulitzer Prize Archive at Columbia University, New York, and the Nobel Prize Archive of the Swedish Academy, Stockholm.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson,Henry David Thoreau,Margaret Fuller,Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812975093

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The American Transcendentalists by Ralph Waldo Emerson,Henry David Thoreau,Margaret Fuller,Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery. Edited by the eminent scholar Lawrence Buell, this comprehensive anthology contains the essential writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and their fellow visionaries. There are also reflections on the movement by Charles Dickens, Henry James, Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This remarkable volume introduces the radical innovations of a brilliant group of thinkers whose impact on religious thought, social reform, philosophy, and literature continues to reverberate in the twenty-first century.

Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781623730338

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It All Adds Up by Saul Bellow Pdf

In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in The New York Times, Esquire and The New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across topics as various as the talents of President Roosevelt, the economic narrative of Jay Gatsby, and childhood adventures in Chicago. In this rich mix of literary, political, and personal musings, Bellow is able to explore subjects as enormous as the writer’s search for truth, and as minute as the discomforts of a French doctors’ office. Traveling from Washington to Spain to the Sinai Peninsula, and profiling friends and characters such as John Cheever and John Berryman, Bellow is keenly focused and perceptive. These pages, spanning a lifetime of thought and debate, present provocative arguments and erudite literary criticism, all with the wry humor of a great storyteller. In It All Adds Up, Bellow turns his view away from the sparkling characters of his novels, and towards the conditions and qualities of his own experience of writing and living.

Author : Marija Knežević
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443884181

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Mapping the World of Anglo-American Studies at the Turn of the Century by Marija Knežević Pdf

This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language’s status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be problematized in, and determined by, other spheres of the world, especially at the universities at which they are studied. This book, consequently, approaches both mainstream cultural, literary, linguistic and academic achievements and, often by way of comparison, those smaller, more distant, and marginalized fields, traditionally subordinate studies, as well as instances of cultural hybridization. Given its concern with a broad field of culture, literature, linguistics, and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, this book consists of two main parts comprising the closest research and teaching fields; one attending to culture and literature, and the other approaching linguistics and methodology.

Author : James Leslie Woodress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066260798

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American Literary Scholarship by James Leslie Woodress Pdf

Author : Zachary Leader
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307388933

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The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 1 by Zachary Leader Pdf

For much of his adult life, Saul Bellow was the most acclaimed novelist in America, the winner of, among other awards, the Nobel Prize in Literature, three National Book Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. The Life of Saul Bellow, by the literary scholar and biographer Zachary Leader, draws on unprecedented access to Bellow’s papers, including much previously restricted material, as well as interviews with more than 150 of the novelist’s relatives, close friends, colleagues, and lovers, a number of whom have never spoken to researchers before. Through detailed exploration of Bellow’s writings, and the private history that informed them, Leader chronicles a singular life in letters, offering original and nuanced accounts not only of the novelist’s development and rise to eminence, but of his many identities—as writer, polemicist, husband, father, Chicagoan, Jew, American.

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711887

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The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross Pdf

One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

Author : Robert Pinsky,David Lehman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781451658897

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The Best of the Best American Poetry by Robert Pinsky,David Lehman Pdf

Robert Pinsky, distinguished poet and man of letters, selects the top 100 poems from twenty-five years of The Best American Poetry This special edition celebrates twenty-five years of the Best American Poetry series, which has become an institution. From its inception in 1988, it has been hotly debated, keenly monitored, ardently advocated (or denounced), and obsessively scrutinized. Each volume consists of seventy-five poems chosen by a major American poet acting as guest editor—from John Ashbery in 1988 to Mark Doty in 2012, with stops along the way for such poets as Charles Simic, A. R. Ammons, Louise Glück, Adrienne Rich, Billy Collins, Heather McHugh, and Kevin Young. Out of the 1,875 poems that have appeared in The Best American Poetry, here are 100 that Robert Pinsky, the distinguished poet and man of letters, has chosen for this milestone edition.