Bøker av Philip D. Beidler

Presents essays from a master critic on how artistic giants from modernism onward confronted mortality - forging unexpected links between Twain, Woolf, Mahler, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Toni Morrison, and more.

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip Beidler investigates the assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.

A personal and cultural mediation, Philip D. Beidler's The Island Called Paradise explores the fascinating ways Cuban history and culture have permeated North American consciousness, and vice versa.

A discussion of the literature of the war and a study of literary consciousness relative to the larger process of cultural myth-making.

More than 50 writers are profiled in this survey of the literature of the 1960s including Timothy Leary, Malcolm X, Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson. The background of the youth movements are highlighted in the investigation in order to compare literacy in the USA in the 1990s.

Explores the war through chapters on its vocabulary, music, literature, and film. This work contains a catalog of soldier slang that reveals how finely a tour of Vietnam could hone one's sense of absurdity.