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American Lonesome

Author : Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807169471
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Lonesome written by Gavin Cologne-Brookes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications, provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and emotions encountered in Springsteen’s songs and performances. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen’s formative environment and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist’s confessed tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen’s portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple selves as played out both in Springsteen’s work and in our perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform—including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016—Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary criticism, and personal testimony.

High Lonesome

Author : Cecelia Tichi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846087
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book High Lonesome written by Cecelia Tichi and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at country music argues that it has become a national art form, reflecting the same themes that have characterized American art and literature over three centuries

The Lonely American

Author : Jacqueline Olds, MD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807000353
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Lonely American written by Jacqueline Olds, MD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, it is more acceptable to be depressed than to be lonely-yet loneliness appears to be the inevitable byproduct of our frenetic contemporary lifestyle. According to the 2004 General Social Survey, one out of four Americans talked to no one about something of importance to them during the last six months. Another remarkable fact emerged from the 2000 U.S. Census: more people are living alone today than at any point in the country's history—fully 25 percent of households consist of one person only. In this crucial look at one of America's few remaining taboo subjects—loneliness—Drs. Jacqueline Olds and Richard S. Schwartz set out to understand the cultural imperatives, psychological dynamics, and physical mechanisms underlying social isolation. In The Lonely American, cutting-edge research on the physiological and cognitive effects of social exclusion and emerging work in the neurobiology of attachment uncover startling, sobering ripple effects of loneliness in areas as varied as physical health, children's emotional problems, substance abuse, and even global warming. Surprising new studies tell a grim truth about social isolation: being disconnected diminishes happiness, health, and longevity; increases aggression; and correlates with increasing rates of violent crime. Loneliness doesn't apply simply to single people, either—today's busy parents "cocoon" themselves by devoting most of their non-work hours to children, leaving little time for friends, and other forms of social contact, and unhealthily relying on the marriage to fulfill all social needs. As a core population of socially isolated individuals and families continues to balloon in size, it is more important than ever to understand the effects of a culture that idealizes busyness and self-reliance. It's time to bring loneliness—a very real and little-discussed social epidemic with frightening consequences-out into the open, and find a way to navigate the tension between freedom and connection in our lives.

Hank Williams, So Lonesome

Author : George William Koon
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062836
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Hank Williams, So Lonesome written by George William Koon and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative separation of myth from fact in the life of the great country music star

Lonesome Traveler

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802195709
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Traveler written by Jack Kerouac and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed Beat writer, Jack Kerouac’s unique collection of personal travel writing, now reissued following his centenary celebration In his first directly autobiographical book, Jack Kerouac relates the exhilarating stories of the years he spent restlessly traveling and writing his acclaimed novels. He journeys from the California deserts crisscrossed by train tracks to the bullfights of Mexico to the Beat nightlife of New York City, and across the Atlantic to Paris, Morocco, and London. With echoes of landscapes that appear in his other novels, including The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels, and featuring his distinctive exuberant style and “jazzy impressionistic prose” (New Yorker), Lonesome Traveler is a unique addition to Kerouac’s body of work. Show Additional Fields

Lonesome

Author : Kevin Lewis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714473
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome written by Kevin Lewis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There is another loneliness', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: 'Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought'. For Kevin Lewis, that 'other loneliness' is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being 'lonesomeness'. It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban rustbelt.In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores - in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art - the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway - creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness - Lewis finds the apex of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper. Lewis argues that in expressive works like "Nighthawks" and "Morning Sun" one sees Hopper's solitude redeemed by 'something more': by the notion that in isolation the individual may yet be touched by transcendence. Kevin Lewis argues that those echoes of 'something else' reveal a great deal about the American character that we would do well to heed, as well as deep rooted cultural attitudes towards religion, individualism and self-belief.

A Land Gone Lonesome

Author : Dan O'Neill
Publisher : New York : Counterpoint
ISBN 13 : 9781582433448
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Land Gone Lonesome written by Dan O'Neill and published by New York : Counterpoint. This book was released on 2006-05-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his square-sterned canoe, Alaskan author Dan O'Neill set off down the majestic Yukon River, beginning at Dawson, Yukon Territory, site of the Klondike gold rush. The journey he makes to Circle City, Alaska, is more than a voyage into northern wilderness, it is an expedition into the history of the river and a record of the inimitable inhabitants of the region, historic and contemporary. A literary kin of John Muir's Travels in Alaska and John McPhee's Coming into the Country, A Land Gone Lonesome is the book on Alaska for the new century. Though he treks through a beautiful and hostile wilderness, the heart of O'Neill's story is his exploration of the lives of a few tough souls clinging to the old ways-even as government policies are extinguishing their way of life. More than just colorful anachronisms, these wilderness dwellers-both men and women-are a living archive of North American pioneer values. As O'Neill encounters these natives, he finds himself drawn into the bare-knuckle melodrama of frontier life-and further back still into the very origins of the Yukon river world. With the rare perspective of an insider, O'Neill here gives us an intelligent, lyrical-and ultimately, probably the last-portrait of the river people along the upper Yukon.

Lonesome Lies Before Us

Author : Don Lee
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0393608816
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Lies Before Us written by Don Lee and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary ballad of heartbreak, failure, and unquenchable longing, this novel presents Don Lee at his best. Yadin Park is a talented alt-country musician whose career has floundered—doomed first by his homely looks and lack of stage presence and then by a progressive hearing disorder. His girlfriend, Jeanette Matsuda, might have been a professional photographer but for a devastating heartbreak in her teens. Now Yadin works for Jeanette’s father’s carpet-laying company in California while Jeanette cleans rooms at a local resort. When Yadin’s former lover and musical partner, the celebrated Mallory Wicks, comes back into his life, all their most private hopes and desires are exposed, their secret fantasies about love and success put to the test. Drawn to the music of indie singer-songwriters like Will Johnson, who helped shape the lyrics in this book, Don Lee has written a novel that unforgettably captures America’s deepest yearnings. Beautifully sad and laced with dark humor, Lonesome Lies Before Us is a profound, heartfelt romance, a soulful and memorable song.

High Lonesome

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846440
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book High Lonesome written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview). The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explore lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In “Uncle High Lonesome,” a young man recalls an uncle’s drinking binges and the rage unleashed, hinting at dark waters of distress. Fishing is transformed into a life-altering, almost mystical event in “A Creature in the Bay of St. Louis.” And in “Snerd and Niggero,” a deep friendship between two men is inspired by the loss of a woman they both loved. Viewed through memory and time’s distance, Barry Hannah’s characters are brightly illuminated figures from a lost time, whose occasionally bleak lives are still uncommonly true. “Barry Hannah’s writing is raw and exhilarating, tortured, radiant, vicious, aggressive, funny, and streaked with rage, pain and bright poetic truth.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer on Airships

Lonely Planet Western USA

Author : Anthony Ham
Publisher : Lonely Planet
ISBN 13 : 1837581037
Total Pages : 761 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Lonely Planet Western USA written by Anthony Ham and published by Lonely Planet. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Planets Western USA is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Cruise down coastal highways, soak up Seattles culture, or be awestruck by the Grand Canyon; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Western USA and begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planets Western USA Travel Guide: Up-to-date information - all businesses were rechecked before publication to ensure they are still open after 2020s COVID-19 outbreak NEW top experiences feature - a visually inspiring collection of [destinations] best experiences and where to have them Improved planning tools for family travelers - where to go, how to save money, plus fun stuff just for kids Color maps and images throughout Highlights and itineraries help you tailor your trip to your personal needs and interests Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, websites, transit tips, prices Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sleeping, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss Cultural insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, cuisine, politics Over 40 maps Covers Rocky Mountains, Southwest, California, Pacific Northwest, and more The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planets Western USA, our most comprehensive guide to Western USA, is perfect for both exploring top sights and taking roads less traveled. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planets USA for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer. About Lonely Planet: Lonely Planet is a leading travel media company, providing both inspiring and trustworthy information for every kind of traveler since 1973. Over the past four decades, we've printed over 145 million guidebooks and phrasebooks for 120 languages, and grown a dedicated, passionate global community of travelers. You'll also find our content online, and in mobile apps, videos, 14 languages, armchair and lifestyle books, ebooks, and more, enabling you to explore every day. 'Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' New York Times 'Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveler's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, and it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' Fairfax Media (Australia)

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie

Author : Kristiana Gregory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780590226516
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie written by Kristiana Gregory and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her diary, thirteen-year-old Hattie chronicles her family's arduous 1847 journey from Missouri to Oregon on the Oregon Trail.

Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Author : Maya Angelou
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 0375500316
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (755 download)

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Download or read book Even the Stars Look Lonesome written by Maya Angelou and published by Random House Incorporated. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author shares her experiences with and wisdom about aging, sensuality and sexuality, rage and violence, Oprah Winfrey, Africa, and the home

List of Films, Reels and Views Examined

Author : Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book List of Films, Reels and Views Examined written by Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... containing the names and the disposition made of more than 20,000 pictures, from ... May 15th, 1915, up to the end of the year 1917. This list will be supplemented by further lists presented at the end of each half yearly period."--Pennsylvania. State Board of Censors of Moving Pictures. Report, 1918, p. 7.

Big Lonesome

Author : Joseph Scapellato
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0544770544
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Big Lonesome written by Joseph Scapellato and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive, ranging debut story collection from a writer hailed by Charles Yu as "a stunningly original voice—warm, bleak, dark, ecstatic, full of silences and power and life" Reinventing a great American tradition through an absurdist, discerning eye, Joseph Scapellato uses these twenty-five stories to conjure worlds, themes, and characters who are at once unquestionably familiar and undeniably strange. Big Lonesome navigates through the American West—from the Old West to the modern-day West to the Midwest, from cowboys to mythical creatures to everything in between—exploring place, myth, masculinity, and what it means to be whole or to be broken. Though he works in the tradition of George Saunders and Patrick deWitt—writing subversive, surreal, and affecting stories that unveil the surprising inner lives of ordinary people and the mythic dimensions of our everyday lives—"Scapellato’s Big Lonesome is unlike anything else you’ve ever read" (Robert Boswell).

American Silence

Author : Zeese Papanikolas
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803205961
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book American Silence written by Zeese Papanikolas and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American Silence , a complement to his previous study Trickster in the Land of Dreams , Zeese Papanikolas investigates a number of significant American cultural artifacts and the lives of their makers. For Papanikolas, both the private failures and public successes of Clarence King, Henry Adams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Chandler, and Hank Williams resonate with silences.

Lonesome Rangers

Author : John Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781565846944
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Lonesome Rangers written by John Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers twenty-seven varied essays exploring contemporary writers and the "literature of exile."

American Lonesome

Author : Gavin Cologne-Brookes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080716948X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book American Lonesome written by Gavin Cologne-Brookes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications, provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and emotions encountered in Springsteen’s songs and performances. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen’s formative environment and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist’s confessed tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen’s portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple selves as played out both in Springsteen’s work and in our perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform—including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016—Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary criticism, and personal testimony.