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“ronald berman”

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  • Modernity and Progress

    Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Orwell

    by Ronald Berman ...
    Breaks new critical ground by exploring philosophical and aesthetic issues germane to the writings of three major modern literary figures.In the 1920s and ‘30s, understandings of time, place, and civilization were subjected to a barrage of new conceptions. Ronald Berman probes the work of three writers who wrestled with one or more of these issues in ways of lasting significance.Hemingway, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway

    Language and Experience

    by Ronald Berman ...
    In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the "age of jazz." By focusing specifically on aesthetics—the ways these writers translated everyday reality into language—Berman challenges and redefines many routinely ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Translating Modernism

    Fitzgerald and Hemingway

    by Ronald Berman ...
    In Translating Modernism Ronald Berman continues his career-long study of the ways that intellectual and philosophical ideas informed and transformed the work of America’s major modernist writers.Here Berman shows how Fitzgerald and Hemingway wrestled with very specific intellectual, artistic, and psychological influences, influences particular to each writer, particular to the time in which they ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene

    by Ronald Berman ...
    ***A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleA study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of Fitzgerald and key early American modernist writers***F. Scott Fitzgerald and the American Scene continues Ronald Berman’s lifelong study of the philosophical, intellectual, and political influences on the artistic creations of key early American modernist ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Fitzgerald's Mentors

    Edmund Wilson, H. L. Mencken, and Gerald Murphy

    by Ronald Berman ...

    $17.29 USD

  • Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and the Twenties

    by Ronald Berman ...
    A noted scholar offers fresh ways of looking at two legendary American authors.Both F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway came into their own in the 1920s and did some of their best writing during that decade. In a series of interrelated essays, Ronald Berman considers an array of novels and short stories by both authors within the context of the decade's popular culture, philosophy, and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Manhattan at Mid-Century

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  • Old Masters and Young Geniuses

    The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

    by David W. Galenson ...
    When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives?By examining the careers not only of great painters but also of important sculptors, poets, novelists, ... Read more

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  • Poe

    A Life Cut Short

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced pioneering works of science fiction and fantasy. His innovative style, images, and themes had a ... Read more

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  • The Scandal of Susan Sontag

    Edited by Barbara Ching, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    Susan Sontag (1933–2004) spoke of the promiscuity of art and literature-the willingness of great artists and writers to scandalize their spectators through critical frankness, complexity, and beauty. Sontag's life and thought were no less promiscuous. She wrote deeply and engagingly about a range of subjects-theater, sex, politics, novels, torture, and illness-and courted celebrity and controversy ... Read more

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  • The Book That Changed My Life

    Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists

    Edited by Diane Osen ...
    Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life—and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America’s most influential authors discuss their own special literary choices. These unique interviews with National Book Award winners and finalists offer new insights into the many ways in which the experience of reading ... Read more

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  • American Pulp

    How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street

    by Paula Rabinowitz ...
    A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized literature and ideas, spurred ... Read more

    $19.49 USD