The Melancholy Of Departure
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The Melancholy Of Departure
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Author : Alfred DePew
language : en
Publisher: Alfred DePew
Release Date : 1992
The Melancholy Of Departure written by Alfred DePew and has been published by Alfred DePew this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
The Melancholy Of Departure
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Author : Alfred DePew
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
The Melancholy Of Departure written by Alfred DePew and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Fiction categories.
Filled with sharp dialogue, engaging characters, and offbeat detail, the twelve stories collected in The Melancholy of Departure describe an outsider’s world of longing, disillusion, and survival, where hope is found in unexpected places and understanding comes from unlikely sources. In “Hurley,” the title character is a would-be revolutionary who unsuccessfully tries to explain “the difference between erotica and violence against women” to a clerk at a pornography shop called The Fifth Wheel. “Florence Wearnse” centers on a spinster of the World War I generation who goes deaf “to escape the listening, so tired had she grown of stocks and bonds, whooping cough, motor cars, weddings, the Kentucky Derby.” A bizarre friendship between a former psychiatric war orderly with an interest in sadism and an obese mental patient who sublimates his needs by eating lemon meringue pie is featured in “Ralph and Larry.” As the title of the collection suggests, many of the stories deal with loss or failed relationships. In “Voici! Henri!,” a story set in Paris, an aging Englishman contemplates life without his young lover, Henri, who has left Switzerland with a wealthy baron. “Let Me Tell You How I Met My First Husband, the Clown!” is a bittersweet rememberance of a Jewish woman’s first marriage to “Daniel Muldoon: One-Man Flying Circus,” a man she believes was “a sort of Ba’al Shem Tov with laughing children on his shoulders, a man whom God has put on this earth to show us the study of Talmud was not the only path.” “At Home with the Pelletiers” chronicles the disintegration of a St. Louis family after the oldest son, Walter, returns home from Marine Corps boot camp during the Vietnam War. Younger brother Howard prefers the Jane Fonda he sees on the nightly news to the actress who played Barbarella and feels uncomfortably at odds with the militaristic Walter, whose stories about war atrocities and sex Howard finds frighteningly similar. Fully aware of the dangers that await us all—loneliness, commitment, heartbreak, love—the men and women in this collection call out to us from the fringes of society; they are prophets whose messages fall on uninterested ears.
The Enigma Of Departure
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Author : Nicholas Royle
language : en
Publisher: PS Publishing
Release Date : 2008
The Enigma Of Departure written by Nicholas Royle and has been published by PS Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Memory categories.
Between Worlds
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Author : Yasna Bozhkova
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-07-07
Between Worlds written by Yasna Bozhkova and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides a new critical reappraisal of the work of modernist writer and artist Mina Loy. Primarily known for her daring and difficult poems, Loy was also the author of a dazzling variety of other literary and visual artworks in different genres and media. My reading demonstrates the richness and complexity of her work beyond the more often-explored path from Futurism to Dada to Surrealism, emphasizing the importance of her perpetual travel between disparate aesthetics. Engaging in a close analysis of her poetry, essays, manifestoes, and novel Insel, I unearth a multiplicity of hidden literary and pictorial intertexts in her works. Tracing the origins of Loy’s often puzzling imagery, I examine the complex strategies of collage, condensation, distortion, and displacement through which she conflates multiple allusions in enigmatic constellations. I challenge T.S. Eliot’s claim that Loy lacks an œuvre, claiming that there is an aesthetic project, or at least a paradoxical unity in her famously fragmented work. I show how her writings critically engage with the turbulence of avant-garde innovation of her time, pinpointing the essential ephemerality of the avant-gardes and their tendency to become dogmatic ideologies. Through a perpetual shift of the aesthetic paradigm, Loy’s work creates dialogic exchanges between different experimental aesthetic programs. Thus, the book positions Loy not only as an important artist, but also as a major theorist of modernist and avant-garde aesthetics.
De Chirico Cameo
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Author : Giorgio De Chirico
language : en
Publisher: Abradale Press
Release Date : 1995-09-30
De Chirico Cameo written by Giorgio De Chirico and has been published by Abradale Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-30 with Art categories.
Series: Great Modern Masters.
Short Story Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Short Story Index written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Short stories categories.
Melancholy And The Landscape
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Author : Jacky Bowring
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-07
Melancholy And The Landscape written by Jacky Bowring and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-07 with Architecture categories.
Written as an advocacy of melancholy’s value as part of landscape experience, this book situates the concept within landscape’s aesthetic traditions, and reveals how it is a critical part of ethics and empathy. With a history that extends back to ancient times, melancholy has hovered at the edges of the appreciation of landscape, including the aesthetic exertions of the eighteenth-century. Implicated in the more formal categories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, melancholy captures the subtle condition of beautiful sadness. The book proposes a range of conditions which are conducive to melancholy, and presents examples from each, including: The Void, The Uncanny, Silence, Shadows and Darkness, Aura, Liminality, Fragments, Leavings, Submersion, Weathering and Patina.
The Early Chirico
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Author : James Thrall Soby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941
The Early Chirico written by James Thrall Soby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Painters categories.
Contemporary Authors A Bio Bibliographical Guide To Current Writers In Fiction General Nonfiction Poetry Journalism Drama Motion Pictu
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Author : Donna Olendorf
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Authors
Release Date : 1993-11
Contemporary Authors A Bio Bibliographical Guide To Current Writers In Fiction General Nonfiction Poetry Journalism Drama Motion Pictu written by Donna Olendorf and has been published by Contemporary Authors this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors®. Authors in this volume include: Barbara Bush Tenzin Gyato - Dalai Lama Georges Perec Lucius Shepard
The Melancholy Art
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Author : Michael Ann Holly
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2013-02-24
The Melancholy Art written by Michael Ann Holly and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-24 with Art categories.
Why the art historian's craft is a uniquely melancholy art Melancholy is not only about sadness, despair, and loss. As Renaissance artists and philosophers acknowledged long ago, it can engender a certain kind of creativity born from a deep awareness of the mutability of life and the inevitable cycle of birth and death. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. Though the objects art historians study are materially present in our world, the worlds from which they come are forever lost to time. In this eloquent and inspiring book, Michael Ann Holly traces how this disjunction courses through the history of art and shows how it can give rise to melancholic sentiments in historians who write about art. She confronts pivotal and vexing questions in her discipline: Why do art historians write in the first place? What kinds of psychic exchanges occur between art objects and those who write about them? What institutional and personal needs does art history serve? What is lost in historical writing about art? The Melancholy Art looks at how melancholy suffuses the work of some of the twentieth century's most powerful and poetic writers on the history of art, including Alois Riegl, Franz Wickhoff, Adrian Stokes, Michael Baxandall, Meyer Schapiro, and Jacques Derrida. A disarmingly personal meditation by one of our most distinguished art historians, this book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy.