The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313030677
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley by : Allienne R. Becker

Download or read book The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume approaches Greeleys novels by comparing him to the 19th-century French writer Honoré de Balzac. A prolific and popular author, Balzac recorded his milieu in tremendous detail, created a fictional universe peopled by hundreds of characters, and explored the role of Catholicism in his world. Because of his training as a sociologist, Greeley brings to his novels a thorough knowledge of popular culture and social theory. And because of his experience as a Roman Catholic priest, he has gained special knowledge of vice, virtue, and the workings of the Church. Like Balzac—now a major canonical author—Greeley has created a world of numerous fictional persons, mapped the details of his culture, and explored the place of Catholicism in contemporary life.

Andrew M. Greeley

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Publisher : Allienne Becker
ISBN 13 : 0595223591
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Andrew M. Greeley written by Allienne R. Becker and published by Allienne Becker. This book was released on 2002-04-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew M. Greeley's Blackie Ryan stories are reviewed and explicated in this study of the author's novels featuring the delightful and leprechaun like detective. The book surveys detective fiction in which the unique, irrestible, and sometimes irrepressible Blackie Ryan, who is sometimes, but not always, a persona for the author, appears. A composite portrait of Blackie is drawn for the reader. The themes—both sociological and religious—that occur in the fiction are highlighted and explored, as are the various literary devices that the author employs to create his stories. The book includes a "Foreword" written by Andrew M. Greeley, world renowned sociologist, priest, and Professor of Social Science at the university of Chicago.

The Post-Utopian Imagination

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313076359
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Book Synopsis The Post-Utopian Imagination by : M. Keith Booker

Download or read book The Post-Utopian Imagination written by M. Keith Booker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, the long 1950s were marked by an intense skepticism toward utopian alternatives to the existing capitalist order. This skepticism was closely related to the climate of the Cold War, in which the demonization of socialism contributed to a dismissal of all alternatives to capitalism. This book studies how American novels and films of the long 1950s reflect the loss of the utopian imagination and mirror the growing concern that capitalism brought routinization, alienation, and other dehumanizing consequences. The volume relates the decline of the utopian vision to the rise of late capitalism, with its expanding globalization and consumerism, and to the beginnings of postmodernism. In addition to well-known literary novels, such as Nabokov's Lolita, Booker explores a large body of leftist fiction, popular novels, and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. The book argues that while the canonical novels of the period employ a utopian aesthetic, that aesthetic tends to be very weak and is not reinforced by content. The leftist novels, on the other hand, employ a realist aesthetic but are utopian in their exploration of alternatives to capitalism. The study concludes that the utopian energies in cultural productions of the long 1950s are very weak, and that these works tend to dismiss utopian thinking as na^Dive or even sinister. The weak utopianism in these works tends to be reflected in characteristics associated with postmodernism.

Midamerica

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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Choice

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Total Pages : 482 pages
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Book Review Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1520 pages
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Download or read book Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 8-10 of the 1965-1984 master cumulation constitute a title index.

Contemporary Authors New Revision Series

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Publisher : Contemporary Authors New Revis
ISBN 13 : 9780787667283
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Contemporary Authors New Revision Series by : Tracey Watson

Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision Series written by Tracey Watson and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographical and bibliographical guide to current writers in all fields including poetry, fiction and nonfiction, journalism, drama, television and movies. Information is provided by the authors themselves or drawn from published interviews, feature stories, book reviews and other materials provided by the authors/publishers.

Bibliographic Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
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Impossible to Say

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Book Synopsis Impossible to Say by : L. Lamar Nisly

Download or read book Impossible to Say written by L. Lamar Nisly and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-06-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nisly (English, Bluffton College) pairs two writers from Catholic and two from Judaic tradition to examine similar representations of religious mystery among them. He finds that the religious mystery of both Catholicism and rabbinic Judaism occupies a middle position between rationality and indeterminacy, and focuses his study on that dimension that is beyond final explanation but maintain a firm foundation. c. Book News Inc.

John Steinbeck

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis John Steinbeck by : Stephen K. George

Download or read book John Steinbeck written by Stephen K. George and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years after his birth, this volume presents a stimulating range of perspectives on Steinbeck's life and work, with over a dozen pieces written by sons, wives, and close friends such as Arthur Miller and Tom Wolfe and 15 more written by critics, scholars, biographers, and enthusiasts from around the world. Includes about a dozen b&w photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
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Book Synopsis Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry by : Philip McGowan

Download or read book Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry written by Philip McGowan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating the poetry of Anne Sexton 30 years after her death, this text examines the possibilities of language to convey an individual's response to their own existence, the project of defining love and the purpose of the aesthetic in our understanding of these entities.

Songs of the Reconstructing South

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Songs of the Reconstructing South by : Suzanne Disheroon-Green

Download or read book Songs of the Reconstructing South written by Suzanne Disheroon-Green and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-03-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South has a rich cultural legacy and that of Louisiana is especially strong and diverse. Despite its similarities with the rest of the South, Louisiana has a distinct cultural identity rooted in the colonial impulses of France and Spain, the evolution of gender roles, the importance of religion, and the dramatic shift in racial politics after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Perhaps because of its diversity, it has inspired numerous writers, some of whom have contributed greatly to American literature. This book explores the influences at work on Louisiana writers and those writing about Louisiana from the end of the Civil War through World War II. These writers reflect the effects of Louisiana's culture, politics, and colonial heritage. Such writers as Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Lyle Saxon, and George Washington Cable characterize the racial caste system, pointing out the flaws in its construction and its effects on relationships. Ruth McEnery Stuart, Kate Chopin, and Sallie Rhett Roman depict the lives of women in Louisiana and their struggles when taking on nontraditional roles. And William Faulkner and Arna Bontemps draw upon narrative and folk traditions, which provide the foundations for their works. Chapters are grouped in sections devoted to three of the broadest influences on writers of the era: women, work, and culture during Reconstruction; the impact of Modernism; and issues of race and class.

Word, Birth, and Culture

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
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Book Synopsis Word, Birth, and Culture by : Daneen Wardrop

Download or read book Word, Birth, and Culture written by Daneen Wardrop and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. The rising awareness of women's rights, which concurred with the antebellum call for a new American literature, also informed the emerging sense of the feminine that prompts the poets to use the maternal in their poetry. While they do not address the woman question of the 19th century in concrete ways, they nonetheless relied upon the female experience of birthing to create a new relationship with language and to question the nature of signification.

American Carnival

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Book Synopsis American Carnival by : Philip McGowan

Download or read book American Carnival written by Philip McGowan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the presentation and representation of the deemed exotic and unconventional, American carnival forms operate in alternative ways to European variations (typically delineated through a suspension of time and ordinary social conventions). Using an analysis of overt carnival forms, the book demonstrates how America reads society and culture through a dualistic vision contoured by race, class, ethnic, and gender concerns. It then examines a range of 19th- and 20th-century texts by such authors as Hawthorne, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Bellow to identify the operations and mutations of American carnival forms.

Teaching Faulkner

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Book Synopsis Teaching Faulkner by : Stephen Hahn

Download or read book Teaching Faulkner written by Stephen Hahn and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now literary critics have universally praised Faulkner as one of the greatest writers of the modern era, yet students assigned to read his novels in university, college, and high school classes continue to struggle to make sense of his convoluted plots, prolix style, and complex characterizations. The broadest treatment to date of a topic of increasing concern, this book is designed to provide fresh strategies and practical suggestions for the classroom study of several of Faulkner's finest novels and stories, including The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, Light in August, The Unvanquished, and Go Down, Moses. The contributors, all noted Faulkner scholars who regularly teach Faulkner works in their courses, employ a variety of critical theories and approaches. In each chapter, theory is subordinated to tested classroom methods that both motivate and assist students in reading the texts and in understanding why Faulkner remains relevant for contemporary readers. The teaching strategies described in this book draw upon such diverse matters as cultural and social analysis, historical context, reading and rhetorical theory, film and stage techniques, comparative studies, and race, class, and gender issues.

Songs of the New South

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Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Book Synopsis Songs of the New South by : Suzanne Disheroon Green

Download or read book Songs of the New South written by Suzanne Disheroon Green and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of Louisiana authors differ from the works of other Southern writers in significant ways. Strong French, Spanish, Native American, and African American traditions shaped Louisiana culture, and Louisiana writers reflect that cultural diversity in their works. So too, historical and religious influences caused Louisiana to develop in a distinct way, and these influences have similarly affected Louisiana writers. The narrative styles employed by these writers generally differ from the styles of other Southern authors. While contemporary Louisiana writers have contributed a substantial body of work to Southern literature, their writings have not received adequate scholarly attention. This book provides a critical introduction to Louisiana literature and gives special attention to how Louisiana literature and culture depart from the rest of the South. The volume is the first collection of scholarly studies focusing on Louisiana writers from the 1930s to the present. Drawing together discussions of 15 of Louisiana's current premier fiction writers, the collection is organized into three broad sections. The first examines Louisiana narratives and folk traditions; the second, influences of religious traditions on Louisiana writers, including Protestantism, Catholicism, and Paganism; and the third, the construction of gender and race in Louisiana culture. Included are discussions of such writers as Ernest J. Gaines, Anne Rice, James Lee Burke, Moira Crone, John Dufresne, Michael Lee West, Rebecca Wells, and Robert Olin Butler.

Forthcoming Books

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1816 pages
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Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: