Philip D Beidler

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ID1104484
NAMEPhilip D Beidler
GIVEN NAMESPhilip D
FAMILY NAMEBeidler
SIGNATUREBEIDLER P D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Alabama
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years On

    Philip D Beidler, Philip BeidlerBOOKSacrifice and Modern War Literature2018

    Fifty years on, the American experience of the Vietnam War seems suspended between ancient history and rapidly fading cultural memory; or perhaps consigned to the vicissitudes of that habit of negotiating between history (what happened) and memory (how it is retrospectively mythologized). This chapter considers Vietnam War writings, including Michael Herr’s Dispatches (1977), and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (1990), as well as popular mu…

  • Sitting in Darkness

    Philip D Beidler, Philip BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature2016

    With the rise of what has been lauded as the “transnational turn” in American studies, a new disciplinary emphasis on globalistic perspective, attention has turned to that most American of literary authors, from the golden age of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American imperialist adventure, who also happens to have been—in several senses of the phrasing—our greatest literary-cultural traveler. That figure is Mark Twain, by dint of …

  • Race and Displacement

    Houston A Baker Jr, Philip D Beidler et al.BOOKRace and Displacement2013

  • American Wars, American Peace

    Philip D BeidlerBOOKAmerican Wars, American Peace2010

    As a writer, Philip D. Beidler has often drawn on his combat experience in Vietnam and his deep engagement with popular culture. His essays tap these sources in powerful, truth-telling ways. In American Wars, Peace, another voice emerges, distinct yet also tied to Beidler's wartime memories and his love of literature, film, and music. It is voice of one of baby-boom progeny of 'Greatest Generation' who at home and abroad became foot soldiers not …

  • Planets on Tables

    Philip D Beidler, Philip BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature2009

    Book Review| March 01 2009 Planets on Tables: Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World; Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945–1960 Philip Beidler Philip Beidler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 201–203. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-059 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Ic…

  • Introduction

    Open AccessPhilip D Beidler, Gary TaylorCHAPTERWriting Race Across the Atlantic…2005

    T he following essays speak for themselves. One need not patronize authors or readers with attempts at summation and paraphrase. This introduction reflects briefly on their significance as part of an ongoing attempt to trace out both a discourse and a subject of investigation in a rapidly evolving field of multidisciplinary inquiry. The immediate focus of this collection is constructions of race in the early modern Atlantic world. But that needs …

  • Writing Race Across the Atlantic World

    Open AccessPhilip D Beidler, Gary TaylorBOOKWriting Race Across the Atlantic…2005

    This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down instit

  • Writing race across the Atlantic world

    Philip D Beidler, Gary Taylor et al.BOOKWriting Race Across the Atlantic…2005

    Introduction G.Taylor & P.Beidler A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism and Cultural Survival B.Fuchs Angells in America K.O.Kupperman Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples G.Sayre Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism B.Braude Extravagant Viciousness: Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon K.Hall Working Like a Dog: African Labor and R…

  • First Books

    Chriss H Doss, Philip D BeidlerARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

    This case study in cultural mythmaking shows how antebellum created itself out of its own printed texts, from treatises on law and history to satire, poetry, and domestic novels. Early 19th-century was a society still in the making. Now Philip Beidler tells how the first books written and published in the state influenced the formation of Alabama's literary and political culture. As Beidler shows, virtually overnight early found itself in possess…

  • Our Preposterous Use of Literature

    Philip D BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature2001

    Book Review| September 01 2001 Our Preposterous Use of Literature: Emerson and the Nature of Reading By T. S. McMillin. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xii, 183 pp.$32.50. Philip D. Beidler Philip D. Beidler Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 635–636. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-635 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Philip D. Beidler…

  • First Books

    Ed Piacentino, Philip D BeidlerARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000

  • First Books

    Mary Saracino Zboray, Philip D BeidlerARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic2000

  • The Good War's Greatest Hits

    Edward F Palm, Philip D BeidlerARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1999

  • Scriptures for a Generation

    David Wyatt, Philip D BeidlerARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1995

    At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to Carlos Casteneda's The Teachings of Don Juan and the Boston Women's Health Book Collective's Our Bodies, Ourselves. Represented as well are such works of revered elders as Hermann Hesse's…

  • Scriptures for a Generation

    Brooke Horvath, Philip D BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature1995

  • Remembering Wendell Willkie's One World

    Philip D Beidler, Philip BeidlerARTICLECanadian Review of American Studies1994References: 1

    Fifty years ago, people were purchasing the best-selling American book of World War II by the millions. Today, a handful of specialists could identify it. The book was Wendell L. Willkie's One World. A plea by the unsuccessful 1940 Republican presidential candidate for an enlightened postwar American internationalism, it was also an account of the author's globe-girdling 1942 tour of major war fronts—via a converted army air force bomber supplied…

  • Poetry and Pragmatism

    Philip D Beidler, Philip Beidler et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1993

  • Re-Writing America

    E F Palm, Philip D Beidler et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1992

  • The Debate over Vietnam

    Susan Jeffords, David W Levy et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article The Debate over Vietnam. By David W. Levy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. xxii + 217 pp. Cloth, $38.95, ISBN 0-8018-4148-8. Paper, $11.95, ISBN 0-8018-4149-6.) and Re-Writing America: Vietnam Authors in Their Generation. By Philip D. Beidler. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. xvi + 333 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8203-1264-9.) Get access Susan Jeffords Susan Jeffords University of Washington Seattle Search for …

  • Re-Writing America

    Philip K Jason, Philip D BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature1991

  • The Art of Prophesying

    Philip D Beidler, Teresa ToulouseARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1988

  • The Mythologizing of Mark Twain

    Howard G Baetzhold, Sara deSaussure Davis et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1986

    Readers of Mark Twain seldom doubt his genius, but defining that genius and locating its source continue to challenge students of American literature.Equally elusive is an explanation of the intriguing phenomenon of Twain as a mythic figure, both shaper and embodier of an American mythos.Perhaps no single critical approach can adequately assess the complex force behind Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain.This native genius, our quintessential artist, r…

  • American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam

    Judy Lee Kinney, Philip D BeidlerARTICLESouth Atlantic Review1985

    In his exploration of the ways in which writers have tried to make sense of the experience, Philip D. Beidler brings to light a whole literature that in its moments of fullest achievement quite literally creates a more real than reality. Beidler turns his attention to a wide variety of literary texts: novels, plays, poems, memoirs, oral histories, documentaries, and reportage. Perceptive and evocative, American Literature and the Experience of Vi…

  • American Literature and the Experience of Vietnam

    Gordon O Taylor, Philip D BeidlerARTICLEAmerican Literature1985

  • Mark Twain and the Limits of Power

    Philip D Beidler, James L JohnsonARTICLEAmerican Literature1983