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- ISBN
- 9780803222731
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803222734
ISBN-13
9780803222731
eBay Product ID (ePID)
66013441
Product Key Features
Book Title
Against Joie De Vivre : Personal Essays
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General, American / General, Educators
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
7.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2008-032116
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Lopate entertains by blasting write-your-own-vows weddings, camaraderie in bars and the enforced gaiety of dinner parties but expounds more positively on movies, friendship and subletting as a lifestyle. . . . Despite its cranky title, this lively, unpredictable collection of essays is a joy to read, and read again., "Subtle, profound (and slightly devilish). Phillip Lopate can express the nuances of the urban mind better than anyone else I know. Phillip Lopate is one of the best essayists in America."-Noel Perrin, "Lopate entertains by blasting write-your-own-vows weddings, camaraderie in bars and the enforced gaiety of dinner parties but expounds more positively on movies, friendship and subletting as a lifestyle. . . . Despite its cranky title, this lively, unpredictable collection of essays is a joy to read, and read again."- Publishers Weekly, "Lopate entertains by blasting write-your-own-vows weddings, camaraderie in bars and the enforced gaiety of dinner parties but expounds more positively on movies, friendship and subletting as a lifestyle. . . . Despite its cranky title, this lively, unpredictable collection of essays is a joy to read, and read again."-Publishers Weekly, Subtle, profound (and slightly devilish). Phillip Lopate can express the nuances of the urban mind better than anyone else I know. Phillip Lopate is one of the best essayists in America., "Lopate entertains by blasting write-your-own-vows weddings, camaraderie in bars and the enforced gaiety of dinner parties but expounds more positively on movies, friendship and subletting as a lifestyle. . . . Despite its cranky title, this lively, unpredictable collection of essays is a joy to read, and read again."-- Publishers Weekly "Subtle, profound (and slightly devilish). Phillip Lopate can express the nuances of the urban mind better than anyone else I know. Phillip Lopate is one of the best essayists in America."--Noel Perrin
Dewey Decimal
814/.54
Table Of Content
I. Samson and Delilah and the Kids Against Joie de Vivre Art of the Creep A Nonsmoker with a Smoker What Happened to the Personal Essay II. Never Live Above Your Landlord Revisionist Nuptials Anticipation of La Notte : The "Heroic" Age of Moviegoing Modern Friendships A Passion for Waiting III. Chekhov for Children On Shaving a Beard Only Make Believe: Some Observations on Architectural Language Houston Hide-and-Seek Carlos: Evening in the City of Friends IV. Upstairs Neighbors Waiting for the Book to Come Out Reflections on Subletting Suicide of a Schoolteacher
Synopsis
"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the "hungry soul." Lopate's special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his subjects an engaging honesty and openness that invite us to experience the world along with him. Also included here are Lopate's inspiring account of his production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with a group of preadolescents, a look at the tradition of the personal essay, and a soul-searching piece on the suicide of a schoolteacher and its effect on his students and fellow teachers. By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, Lopate displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. This collection maintains a conversational charm while taking the contemporary personal essay to a new level of complexity and candor. Phillip Lopate is a professor of English at Hofstra University and teaches in the MFA graduate programs at Columbia, the New School, and Bennington. He is the editor of American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents until Now and has published two novels and numerous nonfiction collections, including Portrait of My Body and Totally, Tenderly, Tragically., "Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre , the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the "hungry soul." Lopate's special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his subjects an engaging honesty and openness that invite us to experience the world along with him. Also included here are Lopate's inspiring account of his production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya with a group of preadolescents, a look at the tradition of the personal essay, and a soul-searching piece on the suicide of a schoolteacher and its effect on his students and fellow teachers. By turns humorous, learned, celebratory, and elegiac, Lopate displays a keen intelligence and a flair for language that turn bits of common, everyday life into resonant narrative. This collection maintains a conversational charm while taking the contemporary personal essay to a new level of complexity and candor.
LC Classification Number
PS3562.O66A74 2008
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