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"The only book to offer an extended treatment of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing, and the first to offer extended analysis of her prose style"--
Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literary style. --- Electronic books.
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This book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style and philosophical viewpoint that derives from a shared attitude toward suffering. What Mary McCarthy called a "cold eye" was not merely a personal aversion to displays of emotion: it was an unsentimental mode of attention that dictated both ethical positions and aesthetic approaches. Tough Enough traces the careers of these women and their challenges to the pre-eminence of empathy as the ethical posture from which to examine pain. Their writing and art reveal an adamant belief that the hurts of the world must be treated concretely, directly, and realistically, without recourse to either melodrama or callousness. As Deborah Nelson shows, this stance offers an important counter-tradition to the familiar postwar poles of emotional expressivity on the one hand and cool irony on the other. Ultimately, in its insistence on facing reality without consolation or compensation, this austere "school of the unsentimental" offers new ways to approach suffering in both its spectacular forms and all of its ordinariness.
Toughness (Personality trait) --- Aesthetics --- Suffering in literature. --- Suffering in art. --- Psychological aspects. --- Weil, Simone, --- Arendt, Hannah, --- Sontag, Susan, --- MacCarthy, Mary, --- Arbus, Diane, --- Didion, Joan. --- Diane Arbus. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Joan Didion. --- Mary McCarthy. --- Simone Weil. --- Susan Sontag. --- aesthetics. --- emotion. --- style. --- unsentimental.
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Among New Journalists of the 1960s-1970s, Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion approached their subjects by placing themselves in the center of their narratives as protagonists and by openly acknowledging their subjective impressions of the events they reported. Unlike journalists who adopted the conventions of detachment and objectivity, these New Journalists employed their subjective, literary styles to construct their narrative personae and to dramatize not only the events like the Vietnam War and the 1972 presidential campaign but their direct participation in t
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Didion, Joan -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Herr, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Mailer, Norman -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism. --- Thompson, Hunter S. -- Criticism and interpretation. --- Reportage literature, American --- American prose literature --- Journalism --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- American reportage literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Herr, Michael, --- Mailer, Norman --- Thompson, Hunter S. --- Didion, Joan --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Duke, Raoul --- Tompson, Khanter --- תומפסון, האנטר ס. --- Mailer, Nachem Malek --- Meĭler, Norman --- Мейлер, Норман
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In this bold book, Samuel Cohen asserts the literary and historical importance of the period between the fall of the Berlin wall and that of the Twin Towers in New York. With refreshing clarity, he examines six 1990's novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War: Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Roth's American Pastoral, Morrison's Paradise, O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods, Didion's The Last Thing He Wanted, Eugenides's Middlesex, Lethem's Fortress of Solitude, and DeLillo's Underworld. Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is iro
American fiction --- American fiction. --- Bellettrie. --- Literature and history --- Literature and history. --- Littérature et histoire --- Roman américain --- Roman. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Histoire et critique. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1994-2003. --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1990-1999 --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States --- Pynchon, Thomas --- O'Brien, Tim --- Morrison, Toni --- Roth, Philip --- Didion, Joan --- DeLillo, Don --- Lethem, Jonathan --- Criticism and interpretation --- Eugenides, Jeffrey
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Using a new approach to literature and culture, this book aims to bridge the gap between science and the humanities by suggesting the many areas where they connect.
Quantum theory in literature. --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Literature and science --- Physics in literature. --- American fiction --- History --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Physics in literature --- United States --- Quantum theory in literature --- DeLillo, Don --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Didion, Joan, 1934- . A Book of Common Prayer --- O'Brien, Tim
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""The world is so sad and solemn,"" wrote Nathaniel Hawthorne, ""that things meant in jest are liable, by an overwhelming influence, to become dreadful earnest; gaily dressed fantasies turning to ghostly and black-clad images of themselves."" From the radical dualism of Hawthorne's vision, Samuel Coale argues, springs a continuing tradition in the American novel. In Hawthorne's Shadow is the first critical study to describe precisely the formal shape of Hawthorne's psychological romance and to explore his themes and images in relation to such contemporary writers as John Cheever, Norman Mailer
American fiction --- History and criticism --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Influence --- Romanticism --- United States --- Frederic, Harold --- Criticism and interpretation --- Faulkner, William --- McCullers, Carson --- O'Connor, Flannery Mary --- Styron, William --- Cheever, John --- Gardner, John Champlin, Jr. --- Oates, Joyce Carol --- Didion, Joan --- Manichaeism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Influence.
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In Marriage, Violence and the Nation in the American Literary West, William R. Handley examines literary interpretations of the Western American past. Handley argues that although scholarship provides a narrative of western history that counters optimistic story of frontier individualism by focusing on the victims of conquest, twentieth-century American fiction tells a different story of intra-ethnic violence surrounding marriages and families. He examines works of historiography,as well as writing by Zane Grey, Willa Cather, Wallace Stegner and Joan Didion among others, to argue that these works highlight white Americans' anxiety about what happens to American 'character' when domestic enemies such as Indians and Mormon polygamists, against whom the nation had defined itself in the nineteenth century, no longer threaten its homes. Handley explains that once its enemies are gone, imperialism brings violence home in retrospective narratives that allegorise national pasts and futures through intimate relationships.
American literature --- Novelists, American --- Domestic fiction, American --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Western stories --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Family violence in literature. --- Women pioneers in literature. --- Marriage in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- American novelists --- History and criticism. --- Homes and haunts --- West (U.S.) --- Intellectual life. --- In literature. --- Family violence in literature --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- Marriage in literature --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- Violence in literature --- Women pioneers in literature --- History and criticism --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Domestic fiction [American ] --- National characteristics [American ] --- West [U.S.] in literature --- Cather, Willa Sibert --- Criticism and interpretation --- Stegner, Wallace Earle --- Didion, Joan --- Fitzgerald, Francis Scott --- Grey, Zane --- Wister, Owen --- Turner, Frederick Jackson
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Politics, Desire, and the Hollywood Novel pays close attention to six authors-Nathanael West, Raymond Chandler, Budd Schulberg, Joan Didion, Bruce Wagner, and Elmore Leonard-who have toiled in the film industry and written to tell about it. More specifically, Rhodes considers both screenplays and novels with an eye toward the different formulations of sexuality, art, and ultimately political action that exist in these two kinds of storytelling.
Desire in literature. --- Motion picture industry in literature. --- American fiction --- History and criticism. --- Leonard, Elmore, --- Wagner, Bruce, --- Didion, Joan --- Chandler, Raymond, --- Schulberg, Budd --- West, Nathanael, --- Леонард, Элмор, --- לנארד, אלמור, --- צ׳אנדלר, ריימונד, --- צ׳נדלר, ריימונד, --- レイモンドチャンドラー, --- Schulberg, Seymour Wilson, --- Weinstein, Nathan, --- וסט, נתנאל, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Hūlīwūd (Los Angeles, Calif.) --- Hollywood (Calif.) --- In literature. --- Desire in literature --- Motion picture industry in literature --- 82:791.43 --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Literatuur en film --- History and criticism --- Leonard, Elmore
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