Leslie A Fiedler
Biographic Data
| ID | 680988 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie A Fiedler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie A |
| FAMILY NAME | Fiedler |
| SIGNATURE | FIEDLER L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1949 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Überquert die Grenze, schließt den Graben! Über die Postmoderne
Love & death in the American novel
Mythicizing the Unspeakable
A reading of three popular films about the Vietnam war (The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, and Rambo) places them against historical grids of war narratives; such popular and folk heroes as Tarzan, Superman, Batman, cowboys, and private eyes; and myths of social identity. The films express both the polyvalent symbols for all in war as well as the symbolic effort to recuperate Vietnam in imagination if not in fact
The Tyranny of the Normal
In a paper originally presented at a conference on the care of\nimpaired newborns, the author discusses attitudes toward normality, congenital\nmalformations, and "freaks" of nature as expressed in art, literature, and\nsocial mores. He attributes discomfort with the handicapped to a primitive\nfear of the abnormal, exacerbated by guilt. (KIE abstract)
Images of the nurse in fiction and popular culture
Images of the nurse in fiction and popular culture Leslie A. Fiedler All sub-communities (ethnic, generational, sexual, professional) which constitute the total community of humankind are perceived by others through certain grids of perception perpetuated in literature: myths or stereotypes which more often than not they themselves find offensive— not merely slanderous but objectively "untrue," i. e., unlike certain more favorable images through…
What was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society
On Infanticide
English literature: Opening Up the Canon
Giving The Devil His Due”
The Symbolic and the Symptomatic: D. H. Lawrence in Recent American Criticism
The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian
Love and Death in the American Novel
Literary History of the United States
Literary History of the United States
Love and Death in the American Novel
The Writer and the Shaman: A Morphology of the American Indian
The Symbolic and the Symptomatic: D. H. Lawrence in Recent American Criticism
Giving The Devil His Due”
On Infanticide
English literature: Opening Up the Canon
Images of the nurse in fiction and popular culture
Images of the nurse in fiction and popular culture Leslie A. Fiedler All sub-communities (ethnic, generational, sexual, professional) which constitute the total community of humankind are perceived by others through certain grids of perception perpetuated in literature: myths or stereotypes which more often than not they themselves find offensive— not merely slanderous but objectively "untrue," i. e., unlike certain more favorable images through…
What was Literature? Class Culture and Mass Society
The Tyranny of the Normal
In a paper originally presented at a conference on the care of\nimpaired newborns, the author discusses attitudes toward normality, congenital\nmalformations, and "freaks" of nature as expressed in art, literature, and\nsocial mores. He attributes discomfort with the handicapped to a primitive\nfear of the abnormal, exacerbated by guilt. (KIE abstract)
Mythicizing the Unspeakable
A reading of three popular films about the Vietnam war (The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, and Rambo) places them against historical grids of war narratives; such popular and folk heroes as Tarzan, Superman, Batman, cowboys, and private eyes; and myths of social identity. The films express both the polyvalent symbols for all in war as well as the symbolic effort to recuperate Vietnam in imagination if not in fact
Love & death in the American novel
Überquert die Grenze, schließt den Graben! Über die Postmoderne
History (8 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (2 works)