Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

A New Fiedler Reader

A New Fiedler Reader( )
Author: Fiedler, Leslie A.
ISBN:978-1-57392-746-8
Publication Date:Oct 1999
Publisher:Prometheus Books, Publishers
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $24.99
Book Description:

An anthology of Fiedler's most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his poems and short fiction. It includes articles, from "Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey!" to "An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum".

Book Details
Pages:588
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Readers / Beginner
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1.46 Inches
Book Weight:1.87 Pounds
Author Biography
Fiedler, Leslie A. (Author)
Leslie A. Fiedler, a literary critic, was a professor of English at the State University of New York, at Buffalo. His well-known preoccupation with social and psychological issues emerged with Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), which became a major critical text of the 1960s. In this book he argued that American writing has been shaped by an inability to portray mature sexual relationships and by an underlying fear of death.

Fiedler admonished critics, teachers, and readers of literature to connect text and context-to consider a poem, for example, as the sum of many contexts, including its genre, the other works of the author, the other works of his time, and so forth. Fiedler's notions of moral ambiguity echo Matthew Arnold's focus on art as criticism of life, but with an energy and style peculiar to himself. Fiedler depended greatly on generalizations (usually unexpected), making his critical remarks reflect broader considerations.

020



Featured Books

Meditations
Aurelius Marcus
Hardback: $72.00
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hardback: $20.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.