Philip Beidler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5512973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Beidler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Beidler |
| SIGNATURE | BEIDLER P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years On
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
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 …
Planets on Tables
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…
Women and Others
Remembering Wendell Willkie's One World
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
Re-Writing America
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Re-Writing America
Poetry and Pragmatism
Remembering Wendell Willkie's One World
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…
Women and Others
Planets on Tables
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…
Sitting in Darkness
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 …
The Vietnam War, American Remembering, and the Measure of Sacrifice, Fifty Years On
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…
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