The Name of Action: Critical Essays - Hardcover

Fraser, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521258766 ISBN 13: 9780521258760

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1984

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John Fraser's critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns that touch these essays are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse.

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This selection from John Fraser's essays forms a triptych with his Violence in the Arts and America and the Patterns of Chivalry (published by the Press in 1974 and 1982) and, like them, explores conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns in all three works are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse. Yet the dominant emphasis is positive. In this volume the author offers some of his finest analyses both of the workings of heroic and pastoral ideals and of the dangers of irony and nihilism in a violent world. The essays range in subject from Shakespeare to Atget's photographs of Paris, by way of American fiction, sadomasochism, literary theory and patterns of rural culture. Their implicit argument is subtle and absorbing.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0521258766
• ISBN 13: 9780521258760
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272