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Landscapes as mentalscapes : Saul Bellow's use of setting in Henderson the Rain King
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro de Comunicação e ExpressãoA diferença mais significante entre Henderson the Rain King e as outras obras de Saul Bellow é a maneira como ele usa o ambiente em vez de usar cidade, que é normalmente domínio de seus personagens. Em Henderson the Rain King o protagonista foge para a África fictícia em busca de si mesmo. O objetivo desta dissertação é investigar os problemas criados pela cultura e a sociedade americanas e investigar como a fuga para a África traz mudanças no personagem. Faço uma tentativa de mostrar como Bellow usa o ambiente para demonstrar desenvolvimento das atitudes e comportamentos do protagonista e força o confronto consigo mesmo. Através desta obra, Bellow ilustra os problemas básicos do homem moderno que vive numa sociedade industrializada
Saul Bellow's defense of man: the pattern of alienation, purgation and reconciliation in Saul Bellow's fiction
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, 1980
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Sacred Categories: Saul Bellow, Friendship, and the Novel
No full textThis thesis traces through the sixty-year career of Saul Bellow a dynamic interdependence between forms of friendship and forms of the novel. Just as other types of relation demand particular narrative structures - such as the much-discussed marriage plot or the family saga - friendships call for accommodation within certain forms, and my thesis argues that Bellow masters what might be called the ‘friendship novel’, that is, a subgenre in which friendship largely determines plot and structure. While the novel provides, moreover, a versatile site of discourse for analysing the valences of friendship, notions of friendship lend thematic and narrative patterning to the novel. By taking a chronological approach through Bellow’s work, I also consider how the role of friendship shifts, for personal and historical reasons, through the course of a life. Each of my three chapters, accordingly, examines how - in a fairly steady progression between youth, middle age, and old age - different kinds of novel are shaped by different models of friendship. Having in my introduction accounted for Bellow’s political and literary awakening within a precocious circle of high-school friends (Isaac Rosenfeld among them), and having sketched out several key themes that emerge from his early work, I move into Chapter One. Here, I argue that *The Adventures of Augie March* (1953) advances a model of casual, sportive friendship that determines the novel’s form as a ‘freewheeling’, picaresque *Bildungsroman*; I then demonstrate how this vision of friendship is challenged, continued, and modified in *Seize the Day* (1956) and *Henderson the Rain King* (1959). Chapter Two explores a different model of friendship, and hence a different form. Against a backdrop of critical appeals (from Lionel Trilling, Irving Howe, and others) to the novel’s dialectical workings, two of Bellow’s important mid-career works - *Herzog* (1964) and *Humboldt’s Gift* (1975) - allude to an aphorism from William Blake: ‘Opposition is true friendship’. Such oppositional friendship, I argue, offers Bellow a loose and yet elegant dialectic by which the novel can balance such opposing aims as philosophical depth and psychological verisimilitude. Chapter Three considers questions of mourning, preservation, and memorialisation. Although these pressures were on Bellow at least as early as 1956 (the year of Isaac Rosenfeld’s death), they become central in his last novel, *Ravelstein* (2000), which responds to the pain of lost friendship with a blend of fiction, biography, and elegy. As I consider *Ravelstein*’s emergence in the wake of several unfinished novels about Rosenfeld, several disappointing attempts to write a biography of Bellow, and contemporary debates about the purpose and import of life-writing, I argue that Bellow makes a consistent case for the novel’s superiority as a form in which to capture the importance and the idiosyncrasy of worthy friends. In a coda, I finally point to some of the ways in which two of Bellow’s most committed enthusiasts and literary ‘sons’ - Philip Roth and Martin Amis - took into their own work lessons from Bellow’s visions of friendship
Saul Bellowの短編を読む : “TheOld System"
No full textSaul Bellowは，比較的多作な作家で中・長編小説をたくさん書いているためか，多くの短編を書いているにもかかわらずその評価はあまりなされていないように思われる。事実批評書においても短編が大きく取り上げられているのは，Daniel Fuchs，Saul Bellow: Visionand RevisionやRobert F. Kiernan，Saul Bellowなどごくわずかといってよい。しかし，短編には長編小説でBellowが一貫して扱ってきた生と死，ユダヤ教と現代的生き方の相克，といったテーマが凝縮された形で示されていることが多い。この小論では，それらのテーマが如実に示されている“TheOld System" をとりあげてみたいと思う。Article富山大学人文学部紀要, 58号, Page 153-16
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
The self-concept of the hero in the novels of Saul Bellow
No full textThe self-concept of the hero in Saul Bellow's novels is the study of this paper. It examines the viewpoints and the situations of the characters in Bellow's novels: Danglinq,Man, The Victim, The Adventures of Augie March, Seize the Day, Henderson the Rain Kim, Herzog, and Mr. Sammler's Planet. This thesis reveals each character as he attempts to find a satisfactory self-concept and as he seeks an answer to the illusive question: "What is a good man?" This essay underscores the unstable and complicated relationship that exists between the self and the world, regardless of the financial; or social position of the character. It also includes a brief description of major characters with particular emphasis on their effect on the hero's attitude toward himself and toward the idea of adopting a single vision of the world.Thesis (M.A.
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
Also By The Same Author: AKTiveAuthor, a Citation Graph Approach to Name Disambiguation
No full textThe desire for definitive data and the semantic web drive for inference over heterogeneous data sources requires co-reference resolution to be performed on those data. In particular, name disambiguation is required to allow accurate publication lists, citation counts and impact measures to be determined. This paper describes a graph-based approach to author disambiguation on large-scale citation networks. Using self-citation, co-authorship and document source analyses, AKTiveAuthor clusters papers, achieving precision of 0.997 and recall of 0.818 over a test group of eight surname clusters
John F. Kennedy telegram to Roosevelt
No full textJersey Homesteads (later the Borough of Roosevelt) was established in the 1930s as an agro-industrial cooperative community. It was established specifically for urban Jewish garment workers, many of whom had emigrated from Europe. President John F. Kennedy sent a telegram to the citizens of Roosevelt, New Jersey, apologizing for not being able to attend the memorial dedication in honor of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (Jersey Homesteads became Roosevelt in 1945 in honor of the president.) President Kennedy expressed his gratitude to the people of Roosevelt for constructing the memorial, and commented that it will serve as a constant reminder of Roosevelt's good works
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