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OverviewEssays 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philip D. BeidlerPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.10cm Weight: 0.189kg ISBN: 9780817321260ISBN 10: 0817321268 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 03 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Great Beyond is a project that glows with polished fire of mature ambition. Philip Beidler has taken on fundamental questions of human being that lead inevitably to the same blank void we call Death. But what Beidler also knows is that human connection, Art and Beauty are bulwarks to combat this awaiting end. And what a range of proofs he has here assembled! Literature, Music, Philosophy, Sculpture, History, War, Race, Drama, Nature, Politics. The breadth and depth of this project is breathtaking--his prose meticulous and beautiful, striking deeply without fussy analysis. He is after the bone of truth and, in my view, achieves it. --Donald Anderson, author of Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel This is a thought-provoking book. The themes and issues Beidler addresses in The Great Beyond are timely and have the potential to be deeply relevant for our own era. --Margaret Hutchison, coeditor of Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War The Great Beyond is a project that glows with polished fire of mature ambition. Philip Beidler has taken on fundamental questions of being human that lead inevitably to the same blank void we call Death. But what Beidler also knows is that human connection, art, and beauty are bulwarks to combat this awaiting end. And what a range of proofs he has assembled here: literature, music, philosophy, sculpture, history, war, race, drama, nature, and politics! The breadth and depth of this project is breathtaking--his prose meticulous and beautiful, striking deeply without fussy analysis. He is after the bone of truth and, in my view, achieves it. --Donald Anderson, author of Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel This is a thought-provoking book. The themes and issues Beidler addresses in The Great Beyond are timely and have the potential to be deeply relevant for our own era. --Margaret Hutchison, coeditor of Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War Author InformationPhilip D. Beidler is professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama. He is author of several books, including Beautiful War: Studies ina Dreadful Fascination, The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War, and Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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