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Joan Didion S California
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Author : Danko Drusko
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2011-08-03
Joan Didion S California written by Danko Drusko and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-03 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: In my paper on Joan Didion’s California I would like to take a closer look at Joan Didion’s writings, especially the way she writes about her home state of California. Many of her perspective consist of interesting dichotomies and contrasts. Throughout her works Didion reflects her feelings and impressions of California against the idealistic California Dreamin’ mentality. She shows in her writing the California of her mind and the contrasting California of her surroundings. Her perspectives also often present a paradox, as she seems to approach California sometimes as an outsider and sometimes as an insider. Following this I will discuss how she presents and reacts to disillusionment in her writing. Finally I will take a closer look at the essay “Los Angeles Notebook” in order to point out some specific examples of Didion’s perception.
South And West
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Author : Joan Didion
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2017-03-07
South And West written by Joan Didion and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-07 with Literary Collections categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s Bazaar Joan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always kept notebooks—of overheard dialogue, interviews, drafts of essays, copies of articles. Here are two extended excerpts from notebooks she kept in the 1970s; read together, they form a piercing view of the American political and cultural landscape. “Notes on the South” traces a road trip that she and her husband, John Gregory Dunne, took through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Her acute observations about the small towns they pass through, her interviews with local figures, and their preoccupation with race, class, and heritage suggest a South largely unchanged today. “California Notes” began as an assignment from Rolling Stone on the Patty Hearst trial. Though Didion never wrote the piece, the time she spent watching the trial in San Francisco triggered thoughts about the West and her own upbringing in Sacramento. Here we not only see Didion’s signature irony and imagination in play, we’re also granted an illuminating glimpse into her mind and process.
Where I Was From
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Author : Joan Didion
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-01-26
Where I Was From written by Joan Didion and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: In this "arresting amalgam of memoir and historical timeline” (The Baltimore Sun), Didion—a native Californian—reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history, and ours. Didion applies her scalpel-like intelligence to California's ethic of ruthless self-sufficiency in order to examine that ethic’s often tenuous relationship to reality. Combining history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, Where I Was From explores California’s romances with land and water; its unacknowledged debts to railroads, aerospace, and big government; the disjunction between its code of individualism and its fetish for prisons. Whether she is writing about her pioneer ancestors or privileged sexual predators, robber barons or writers (not excluding herself), Didion is an unparalleled observer, and this book is at once intellectually provocative and deeply personal.
The White Album
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Author : Joan Didion
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2024-06-04
The White Album written by Joan Didion and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-04 with Literary Collections categories.
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.
The Joan Didion Collection
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Author : JOAN. DIDION
language : en
Publisher: Library of America
Release Date : 2024-11-19
The Joan Didion Collection written by JOAN. DIDION and has been published by Library of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-11-19 with Fiction categories.
The ultimate Didion: all 17 of her major works of fiction, journalism, and memoir together for the first time in a 3-volume boxed set A must for fans of the most eclectic and enduring writers of the last half century In 1968, a collection of reportage appeared that was unlike anything seen before, remarkable in its literary aspiration and a milestone in what would become known as the New Journalism. A series of wickedly incisive portraits of California and its people--from fading stars to homicidal housewives to drug-addled hippies--Slouching Towards Bethlehem was a sensation, signaling the arrival of a major writer. It attracted not only readers but devotees, and Joan Didion became more than just a celebrated author, she became an icon for the age. Now, for the first time, all her best-known and most enduring works are gathered together in a career-spanning 3-volume Library of America boxed set. THE JOAN DIDION COLLECTION includes: I. The 1960s & 70s Run River Slouching Towards Bethlehem Play It As It Lays A Book of Common Prayer The White Album II. The 1980s & 90s Salvador Democracy Miami After Henry The Last Thing He Wanted III. Memoirs & Later Writings Political Fictions Fixed Ideas Where I Was From The Year of Magical Thinking (memoir and play) Blue Nights South and West Edited by David L. Ulin, each volume contains a textual essay, a chronology of Didion's life and career, and detailed notes.
California And The Melancholic American Identity In Joan Didion S Novels
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Author : Katarzyna Nowak McNeice
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-12-21
California And The Melancholic American Identity In Joan Didion S Novels written by Katarzyna Nowak McNeice and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
California and the Melancholic American Identity in Joan Didion’s Novels: Exiled from Eden focuses on the concept of Californian identity in the fiction of Joan Didion. This identity is understood as melancholic, in the sense that the critics following the tradition of both Sigmund Freud and Walter Benjamin use the word. The book traces the progress of the way Californian identity is portrayed in Joan Didion’s novels, starting with the first two in which California plays the central role, Run River and Play It As It Lays, through A Book of Common Prayer to Democracy and The Last Thing He Wanted, where California functions only as a distant point of reference, receding to the background of Didion’s interests. Curiously enough, Didion presents Californian history as a history of white settlement, disregarding whole chapters of the history of the region in which the Californios and Native Americans, among other groups, played a crucial role: it is this reticence that the monograph sees as the main problem of Didion’s fiction and presents it as the silent center of gravity in Didion’s oeuvre. The monograph proposes to see the melancholy expressed by Didion’s fiction organized into four losses: of Nature, History, Ethics, and Language; around which the main analytical chapters are constructed. What remains unrepresented and silenced comes back to haunt Didion’s fiction, and it results in a melancholic portrayal of California and its identity – which is the central theme this monograph addresses.
State Of The Arts
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Author : Barbara Isenberg
language : en
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Release Date : 2005
State Of The Arts written by Barbara Isenberg and has been published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Celebrates California artists of all sorts and examines their relationship to their environment. Features 54 interviews with visual and performing artists, musicians, screenwriters, novelists, actors, and others. From Dave Brubeck's childhood on a Concord, CA, ranch to Clint Eastwood on his first memories of Carmel, to Luis Valdez's farmworkers' theater and Maxine Hong Kingston's writing of Chinese myth, these wide-ranging and revealing interviews shed light on the creative life in the land of plenty.--From publisher description.
A Vision Of Paradise
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Author : Gerard Wei-Meng Lim
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
A Vision Of Paradise written by Gerard Wei-Meng Lim and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Journalism categories.
The Year Of Magical Thinking
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Author : Joan Didion
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-02-13
The Year Of Magical Thinking written by Joan Didion and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion that explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage—and a life, in good times and bad—that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill with what seemed at first flu, then pneumonia, then complete septic shock. She was put into an induced coma and placed on life support. Days later—the night before New Year’s Eve—the Dunnes were just sitting down to dinner after visiting the hospital when John Gregory Dunne suffered a massive and fatal coronary. In a second, this close, symbiotic partnership of forty years was over. Four weeks later, their daughter pulled through. Two months after that, arriving at LAX, she collapsed and underwent six hours of brain surgery at UCLA Medical Center to relieve a massive hematoma. This powerful book is Didion’ s attempt to make sense of the “weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea I ever had about death, about illness ... about marriage and children and memory ... about the shallowness of sanity, about life itself.
Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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Author : Joan Didion
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Let Me Tell You What I Mean written by Joan Didion and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Literary Collections categories.
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From one of our most iconic and influential writers, the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking: a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt. With a forward by Hilton Als, these twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000, never before gathered together, offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. They showcase Joan Didion's incisive reporting, her empathetic gaze, and her role as "an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time" (The New York Times Book Review). Here, Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers ("the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it"), to the fantasy of San Simeon, to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write," Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means." From her admiration for Hemingway's sentences to her acknowledgment that Martha Stewart's story is one "that has historically encouraged women in this country, even as it has threatened men," these essays are acutely and brilliantly observed. Each piece is classic Didion: incisive, bemused, and stunningly prescient.