Current Search: Existentialism in literature (x)
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Existentialism in Harold Pinter's Drama.
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Creator
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Wolf, Barbara, Pearce, Howard D., Florida Atlantic University
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Abstract/Description
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More than has been previously recognized, Harold Pinter's Weltanschauung is comprehensively existential. Classical absolutes, Medieval spirituality and Renaissance harmony are untenable in his drama. Rational logic and Naturalistic fate are antithetic to his philosophy. Pinter's dramatic aesthetic. has been directed by his existential ethic. In his drama , Pinter recreates the negative conditions of modern life by posing problems based upon existential ontology, axiology, epistemology,...
Show moreMore than has been previously recognized, Harold Pinter's Weltanschauung is comprehensively existential. Classical absolutes, Medieval spirituality and Renaissance harmony are untenable in his drama. Rational logic and Naturalistic fate are antithetic to his philosophy. Pinter's dramatic aesthetic. has been directed by his existential ethic. In his drama , Pinter recreates the negative conditions of modern life by posing problems based upon existential ontology, axiology, epistemology, communication, and destiny; however, he resolves these dilemmas with positive existential solutions by which man may rediscover his existence in an insecure modern world.
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Date Issued
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1970
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000999
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Subject Headings
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Pinter, Harold,--1930---Criticism and interpretation, Existentialism in literature
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Document (PDF)
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Diagnosing modernity: Walker Percy's The Moviegoer as more than a southern Sickness Unto Death.
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Creator
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Salgado, Bryan., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
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The work of physician-turned-writer Walker Percy marks an important development in the history of Southern literature. The author's first novel, The Moviegoer, moves beyond previous consideration of what it meant to be a native of the region by capturing the mindset of modernity rooted in the philosophical movement of existentialism. Embracing the work of S²ren Kierkegaard allows Percy to articulate how his protagonist, Binx Bolling, moves towards a sense of purpose in life. Previously adrift...
Show moreThe work of physician-turned-writer Walker Percy marks an important development in the history of Southern literature. The author's first novel, The Moviegoer, moves beyond previous consideration of what it meant to be a native of the region by capturing the mindset of modernity rooted in the philosophical movement of existentialism. Embracing the work of S²ren Kierkegaard allows Percy to articulate how his protagonist, Binx Bolling, moves towards a sense of purpose in life. Previously adrift due to the contending forces present in the modern mind, the author indicates how an existentially active individual can achieve a sense of direction through the work of not only Kierkegaard, but also Gabriel Marcel. There are certain phenomena present in the text that allow one to temporarily achieve some sense of solace within an inscrutably secularized existence. However, Percy indicates that the modern individual must ultimately find significance through an intersubjective engagement with another.
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Date Issued
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2011
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PURL
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http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3340697
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Subject Headings
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Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy in literature, Dialectic in literature, Intersubjectivity in literature, Existentialism in literature
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Format
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Document (PDF)
