Against Joie De Vivre by Lopate

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Against Joie De Vivre by Lopate

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Against Joie De Vivre by Lopate

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.

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SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780671733674
ISBN 10 0671733672
Titel Against Joie De Vivre
Autor Lopate
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Holiday House
Erscheinungsjahr 1991-04-01
Seitenanzahl 335
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