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Fiedler on the Roof

Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Fiedler on the Roof

Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following relate, in varying degrees, to the subject of antisemitism in literary circles and in literature:

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David R. Godine Publisher

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0879238593

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9780879238599

Writing Home

Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Writing Home

Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

The letters in Writing Home offer a glimpse into a crucially formative period in the life of Leslie A. Fiedler, one of the greatest literary critics and American public intellectuals of the twentieth century. Written to his wife and two sons between May 1944 and December 1945, while he was serving as a cryptologist and translator for the Office of Naval Intelligence, they contain firsthand accounts of his experiences in various locations in the Pacific Theater, including Hawai'i, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Guam, and China. Constrained by Navy censors from writing directly about his work as an intelligence officer, he writes, instead, on a variety of themes, events, places, and war situations, including the ethical contradictions between a war fought for and in the name of freedom on the one hand and the oppression of indigenous Hawai'ians and prisoners of war on the other. He also questions the mainstream, European-centered view of the war and provides new insights into the role of Jewish servicemen in World War II. Finally, the letters document the beginning of the formation of American intellectual life in the years preceding the Cold War, forcing us to rethink certain premises of American exceptionalism in the second half of the twentieth century. Taken together, they offer a unique and fascinating immersion into history through the eyes of one of the makers of post–World War II American literary culture.

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State University of New York Press

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ISBN 13

9798855800463

Love and Death in the American Novel

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Love and Death in the American Novel

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781631

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9781564781635

The Devil Gets His Due

The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler

By: Leslie Fiedler

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The Devil Gets His Due

The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler

By: Leslie Fiedler

Despite his often-unacknowledged influence, academics, intellectuals, and the general audience in America and abroad still read Leslie Fiedler’s work and draw on its concepts. He inspired both reverence (Leonard Cohen penned: "leaning over the American moonlight / like the shyest gargoyle / who will not become angry or old") and rage (Saul Bellow called him "the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature"). The essays in The Devil Gets His Due will reacquaint readers with the depth and breadth of Fiedler’s achievements. Tackling subjects ranging wildly from Dante, Ezra Pound, and Mary McCarthy to Rambo, Iwo Jima, and Jerry Lewis, these writings showcase Fiedler’s pioneering of an egalitarian canon that encompassed both "high" and popular literature, cinema, and history. As such, they show a powerful mind critiquing whole aspects of a culture and uncovering lessons therein that remain timely today. A lengthy introduction by Professor Samuele F. S. Pardini offers both context and history, with an in-depth profile of Fiedler and his career as both a literary critic and a public intellectual.

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353

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Catapult

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1593762666

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9781593762667

A New Fiedler Reader

By: Leslie Fiedler

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A New Fiedler Reader

By: Leslie Fiedler

Leslie Fiedler''s radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century," Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homoerotic element in American machismo, interracial dependence as the classical American bond, those on the social margins being "secret selves," and the continuum of "high" and "low" culture.Designed to delight Fiedler''s contemporary audience and introduce the author to a whole new generation of readers, A New Fiedler Reader is a captivating anthology of Fiedler''s most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his engaging poems and short fiction.A literary icon, Fiedler is among those who urged legalization of marijuana in the late ''60s; suggested that college students read Timothy Leary along with Milton; and was accused of corrupting the young with dangerous leftist ideas. Collected are Fiedler''s most widely known articles, from "Come Back to the Raft Ag''in, Huck Honey!" to "An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum." Complementing these essays are various lesser known poems and short stories, providing the reader with the complete Fiedler experience.

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604

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Prometheus Books

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1615925007

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9781615925001

Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs

By: Leslie Hogben,Jephian C.-H. Lin,Bryan L. Shader

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Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs

By: Leslie Hogben,Jephian C.-H. Lin,Bryan L. Shader

This book provides an introduction to the inverse eigenvalue problem for graphs (IEP-$G$) and the related area of zero forcing, propagation, and throttling. The IEP-$G$ grew from the intersection of linear algebra and combinatorics and has given rise to both a rich set of deep problems in that area as well as a breadth of “ancillary” problems in related areas. The IEP-$G$ asks a fundamental mathematical question expressed in terms of linear algebra and graph theory, but the significance of such questions goes beyond these two areas, as particular instances of the IEP-$G$ also appear as major research problems in other fields of mathematics, sciences and engineering. One approach to the IEP-$G$ is through rank minimization, a relevant problem in itself and with a large number of applications. During the past 10 years, important developments on the rank minimization problem, particularly in relation to zero forcing, have led to significant advances in the IEP-$G$. The monograph serves as an entry point and valuable resource that will stimulate future developments in this active and mathematically diverse research area.

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302

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American Mathematical Society

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1470466554

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9781470466558

The Inadvertent Epic

From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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The Inadvertent Epic

From Uncle Tom's Cabin to Roots

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

Discusses Uncle Tom's cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell, Roots by Alex Haley, and the novels of Thomas Dixon Jr.

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100

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New York : Simon and Schuster

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0671253727

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9780671253721

Writing Home

Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Writing Home

Selected World War II Letters of Leslie A. Fiedler

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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State University of New York Press

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Love and Death in the American Novel

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Love and Death in the American Novel

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No other study of the American novel has such fascinating and on the whole right things to say." Washington Post

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Dalkey Archive Press

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A New Fiedler Reader

By: Leslie Fiedler

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A New Fiedler Reader

By: Leslie Fiedler

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Prometheus Books

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Fiedler on the Roof

Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

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Fiedler on the Roof

Essays on Literature and Jewish Identity

By: Leslie A. Fiedler

A collection of articles, most of them published previously. The following relate, in varying degrees, to the subject of antisemitism in literary circles and in literature:

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David R. Godine Publisher

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Book's by Leslie A. Fiedler

Fiedler on the Roof

Fiedler on the Roof

Writing Home

Writing Home

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel

The Devil Gets His Due

The Devil Gets His Due

A New Fiedler Reader

A New Fiedler Reader

Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs

Inverse Problems and Zero Forcing for Graphs

The Inadvertent Epic

The Inadvertent Epic

Writing Home

Writing Home

Love and Death in the American Novel

Love and Death in the American Novel

A New Fiedler Reader

A New Fiedler Reader

Fiedler on the Roof

Fiedler on the Roof

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