Linda Freedman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6468933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Freedman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Freedman |
| SIGNATURE | FREEDMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
William Blake and the Myth of America
This book tells the story of William Blake’s literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake’s poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country. Blak…
Romanticism after Auschwitz
Saul Bellow’s interest in Blake provides a counterpoint to Blake’s standing in psychedelic counterculture. Bellow despised what he perceived to be the thoughtless sham Romanticism of contemporary youth. For Bellow, as for Blake, imaginative thought was the quintessential moral force in the fight against totalitarianism because it was the sign of the ‘real Man’, the creative individual whose mind is always active. The Blake that Bellow admired was…
Titian's Ruggiero and Angelica
Titian's drawing (25 × 40 cm) in Musée Bonnat (Bayonne), showing a recumbent voluptuous nuda in a lush landscape, depicts an episode from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (×, 94–107). It conveys the very essence of the romance, proclaimed in the famous first lines of the poem. The episode about Ruggiero's rescue of Angelica that Ariosto described and that Titian rendered with acclaimed ‘verisimilitude’ occurred in an imaginary place, in the ‘olden days’…
When the White System doesn't fit
‘Practice Forum' is intended to provide a forum for social work practitioners to share their practice with others; to describe what they are doing and assess its effectiveness. We extend an invitation to all social work practitioners to submit articles for ‘Practice Forum' and we look forward to receiving your contribution. This paper describes a response to Koorie concerns about the inappro-priateness of the white foster care system in meeting t…
When the White System doesn't fit
‘Practice Forum' is intended to provide a forum for social work practitioners to share their practice with others; to describe what they are doing and assess its effectiveness. We extend an invitation to all social work practitioners to submit articles for ‘Practice Forum' and we look forward to receiving your contribution. This paper describes a response to Koorie concerns about the inappro-priateness of the white foster care system in meeting t…
When the White System doesn't fit
‘Practice Forum' is intended to provide a forum for social work practitioners to share their practice with others; to describe what they are doing and assess its effectiveness. We extend an invitation to all social work practitioners to submit articles for ‘Practice Forum' and we look forward to receiving your contribution. This paper describes a response to Koorie concerns about the inappro-priateness of the white foster care system in meeting t…
Titian's Ruggiero and Angelica
Titian's drawing (25 × 40 cm) in Musée Bonnat (Bayonne), showing a recumbent voluptuous nuda in a lush landscape, depicts an episode from Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (×, 94–107). It conveys the very essence of the romance, proclaimed in the famous first lines of the poem. The episode about Ruggiero's rescue of Angelica that Ariosto described and that Titian rendered with acclaimed ‘verisimilitude’ occurred in an imaginary place, in the ‘olden days’…
William Blake and the Myth of America
This book tells the story of William Blake’s literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake’s poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country. Blak…
Romanticism after Auschwitz
Saul Bellow’s interest in Blake provides a counterpoint to Blake’s standing in psychedelic counterculture. Bellow despised what he perceived to be the thoughtless sham Romanticism of contemporary youth. For Bellow, as for Blake, imaginative thought was the quintessential moral force in the fight against totalitarianism because it was the sign of the ‘real Man’, the creative individual whose mind is always active. The Blake that Bellow admired was…
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Romance (2 works) · American Jewish Fiction Analysis (1 work) · American literature (1 work) · Antislavery movements (1 work) · Antislavery movements in literature (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 work)