Mccarthy And His Enemies The Record And Its Meaning Prologue By Ws Schlamm PDF Download

Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Mccarthy And His Enemies The Record And Its Meaning Prologue By Ws Schlamm PDF full book. Access full book title Mccarthy And His Enemies The Record And Its Meaning Prologue By Ws Schlamm.

Biography Index

Biography Index
Author: Bea Joseph
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1272
Release: 1952
Genre: Biography
ISBN:

Download Biography Index Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines.


Book Review Digest

Book Review Digest
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1120
Release: 1954
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Download Book Review Digest Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle


Biographical Books, 1950-1980

Biographical Books, 1950-1980
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1634
Release: 1980
Genre: Autobiography
ISBN:

Download Biographical Books, 1950-1980 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle


The Genius of the Jewish Joke

The Genius of the Jewish Joke
Author: Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release:
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1412824435

Download The Genius of the Jewish Joke Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

The Genius of the Jewish Joke focuses on what is distinctive and unusual about Jewish jokes and Jewish humor. Jewish humor is humor by Jews and about Jews, in whatever medium this humor is found. Jokes are defined as short stories, meant to amuse, with a punch line, though Jewish humor exists in many other forms—riddles, comic definitions, parodies—as well. The book makes a "radical" suggestion about the origin of Jewish humor—namely, that Sarah and Abraham's relation to God, and the name of their son Isaac (which, in Hebrew, means laughter), recognizes a special affinity in Jews for humor. Abraham does not sacrifice Isaac (humor) and, thus, humor and the Jews are linked early in Jewish history. Berger discusses techniques of humor and how they can be used to analyze jokes. He also compares "Old World Jewish Humor"—the humor of the shtetl, with its fabulous schlemiels, schlimazels, schnorrers, and other characters—and "New World Humor"—the humor of Jewish doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professional types living mostly in the suburbs nowadays. Jewish humor is contrasted with other forms of ethnic humor, such as Polish jokes and Italian American jokes. This humor, in addition to providing pleasure, reveals a great deal about Jewish character and culture and, in addition, the human condition. Now available with a new introduction by the author, The Genius of the Jewish Joke is an entertaining and informative inquiry into Jewish humor that explores its distinctiveness, its unique spirit, and its role in Jewish identity.


The Jewish Lists

The Jewish Lists
Author: Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher: Schocken
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1979
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Download The Jewish Lists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle


If God Meant to Interfere

If God Meant to Interfere
Author: Christopher Douglas
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2016-05-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501703528

Download If God Meant to Interfere Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

The rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trained as we were to think that religions waned as societies became modern. In If God Meant to Interfere, Christopher Douglas shows that American writers struggled to understand and respond to this new social and political force. Religiously inflected literature since the 1970s must be understood in the context of this unforeseen resurgence of conservative Christianity, he argues, a resurgence that realigned the literary and cultural fields. Among the writers Douglas considers are Marilynne Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, N. Scott Momaday, Gloria Anzaldúa, Philip Roth, Carl Sagan, and Dan Brown. Their fictions engaged a wide range of topics: religious conspiracies, faith and wonder, slavery and imperialism, evolution and extraterrestrial contact, alternate histories and ancestral spiritualities. But this is only part of the story. Liberal-leaning literary writers responding to the resurgence were sometimes confused by the Christian Right’s strange entanglement with the contemporary paradigms of multiculturalism and postmodernism —leading to complex emergent phenomena that Douglas terms "Christian multiculturalism" and "Christian postmodernism." Ultimately, If God Meant to Interfere shows the value of listening to our literature for its sometimes subterranean attention to the religious and social upheavals going on around it.


Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk
Author: Bradley J. Birzer
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2015-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0813166195

Download Russell Kirk Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Emerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing the rise of radical ideologies abroad, the American Right seemed beaten, broken, and adrift in the early 1950s. Although conservative luminaries such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., Leo Strauss, and Eric Voegelin all published important works at this time, none of their writings would match the influence of Russell Kirk's 1953 masterpiece The Conservative Mind. This seminal book became the intellectual touchstone for a reinvigorated movement and began a sea change in Americans' attitudes toward traditionalism. In Russell Kirk, Bradley J. Birzer investigates the life and work of the man known as the founder of postwar conservatism in America. Drawing on papers and diaries that have only recently become available to the public, Birzer presents a thorough exploration of Kirk's intellectual roots and development. The first to examine the theorist's prolific writings on literature and culture, this magisterial study illuminates Kirk's lasting influence on figures such as T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley Jr., and Senator Barry Goldwater—who persuaded a reluctant Kirk to participate in his campaign for the presidency in 1964. While several books examine the evolution of postwar conservatism and libertarianism, surprisingly few works explore Kirk's life and thought in detail. This engaging biography not only offers a fresh and thorough assessment of one of America's most influential thinkers but also reasserts his humane vision in an increasingly inhumane time.


Hip Figures

Hip Figures
Author: Michael Szalay
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-06-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 080478261X

Download Hip Figures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, novelists such as Norman Mailer, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, and Joan Didion turned to hip culture to negotiate the voter realignments then reshaping national politics. Figuratively transporting white professionals and managers into the skins of African Americans, these novelists and many others insisted on their own importance to the ambitions of a party dependent on coalition-building but not fully committed to integration. Arbiters of hip for readers who weren't, they effectively branded and marketed the liberalism of their moment—and ours.


Up From Liberalism

Up From Liberalism
Author: William F. Buckley Jr.
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1787200485

Download Up From Liberalism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle

William Frank Buckley Jr.’s third book, originally published in 1959, is an urbane and controversial attack on the manners and meaning of American Liberalism in the 1950s. His thesis is that the leading American liberals can be shown, in their speeches and statements, in the tacit premises that underlie their words and deeds, to be suffering from a long, but definable list of social and philosophical prejudices. “Up From Liberalism” examines the root assumptions of the Liberalism of his era and asks the startling question: do the actions of prominent liberalism derive from the attributes of Liberalism? “This book of mind and heart, wit and eloquence, by the chief spokesman for the young conservative revival in this country, must be read and understood, to understand what is going on in America.”—Senator Barry Goldwater “A guide for Americans who want to stay free in a country where pressures against individual freedom are coming from every direction.”—Charleston Nines & Courier “He is at top form...clear and penetrating...A slashing attack against the thinking of today’s pseudo-liberals.”—Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph “The most exciting book of the Fall.”—New York Mirror “Mr. Buckley is one of the most articulate of the critics of today’s liberalism and deserves to be heard.”—Washington Star “Buckley brilliantly excoriates a philosophy he calls liberalism.”—Newsweek “A skilled debater, a trenchant stylist...a man of agile and independent mind...He belongs in the great American tradition of protest and he deserve his audience.”—New York Herald Tribune