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The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of Annihilation

The Great Beyond: Art in the Age of Annihilation


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About the Book

Essays 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.

About the Author :
Philip 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.

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"A prolific and steadfast literary historian, Beidler has held sway for the last 30 years as one of the foremost scholars of war literature and of modernism. This is surely Beidler's most personal work. He reveals that he is now 76, that one of the essays he includes began life as a graduate school paper 50 years ago, and that he still carries a personal, painful sense of outrage toward the German nation of WW II, which forsook its vaunted cultural heritage in favor of murdering artists such as Gertrude Kolmar. Like all of Beidler's work, this collection allows readers to live within the mind of this expansive and compassionate scholar." Highly recommended. --CHOICE "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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780817321260
  • Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 200
  • Spine Width: 22 mm
  • Weight: 189 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0817321268
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Art in the Age of Annihilation
  • Width: 149 mm


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