Complete Essays: 1939-1956
Title | Complete Essays: 1939-1956 PDF eBook |
Author | Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | Complete Essays of Aldous Huxley |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
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"Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover.
Complete Essays
Title | Complete Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 2023-12-21 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1493082108 |
In this fifth of six volumes in a major publishing enterprise, Huxley continues to explore the role of science and technology in modern culture, and seeks a final level of foundational Truth that might provide the basis for his growing interest in religious mysticism. His philosophy of history took its final form in this period. At their best, Huxley's essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. "A remarkable publishing event...beautifully produced and authoritatively edited."—Jeffrey Hart. "He writes with an easy assurance and a command of classical and modern cross-references,"—Christopher Hitchens, Los Angeles Times. "There is much to enjoy in these volumes...they are important as a document of his times, and of a window on to a stage in the evolution of his mind."—Economist. "You have to marvel at the range of [Huxley's] interests and the intelligence with which he explores them....What we experience in this high journalism is a man of intelligence, sensibility, and formidable erudition engaging his era and struggling for equilibrium while sharing the widespread perception that something ghastly has happened to European civilization...."—Washington Times
Complete Essays
Title | Complete Essays PDF eBook |
Author | Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | English essays |
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Complete Essays: 1930-1935
Title | Complete Essays: 1930-1935 PDF eBook |
Author | Aldous Huxley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 666 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Authors, English |
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"Over his lifetime from 1894 to 1963, Aldous Huxley earned a reputation as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary in our time. Best known for his novels, including Brave New World and Point Counter Point, Huxley was nonetheless very much at home in the essay form. Ranging from journalism to critical reviews to lierary, political, cultural, and philosophical reflections, these essays stand among the finest examples of the genre in modern literature. They also provide absorbing commentary on contmporary currents and events."--Page 2 of cover.
The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3
Title | The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 3 PDF eBook |
Author | Clement Greenberg |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0226306232 |
Clement Greenberg is widely recognized as the most influential and articulate champion of modernism during its American ascendency after World War II, the period largely covered by these highly acclaimed volumes of The Collected Essays and Criticism. Volume 3: Affirmations and Refusals presents Greenberg's writings from the period between 1950 and 1956, while Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance gathers essays and criticism of the years 1957 to 1969. The 120 works range from little-known pieces originally appearing Vogue and Harper's Bazaar to such celebrated essays as "The Plight of Our Culture" (1953), "Modernist Painting" (1960), and "Post Painterly Abstraction" (1964). Preserved in their original form, these writings allow readers to witness the development and direction of Greenberg's criticism, from his advocacy of abstract expressionism to his enthusiasm for color-field painting. With the inclusion of critical exchanges between Greenberg and F. R. Leavis, Fairfield Porter, Thomas B. Hess, Herbert Read, Max Kozloff, and Robert Goldwater, these volumes are essential sources in the ongoing debate over modern art. For each volume, John O'Brian has furnished an introduction, a selected bibliography, and a brief summary of events that places the criticism in its artistic and historical context.
'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies
Title | 'Brave New World': Contexts and Legacies PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Greenberg |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2016-10-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137445416 |
This collection of essays provides new readings of Huxley’s classic dystopian satire, Brave New World (1932). Leading international scholars consider from new angles the historical contexts in which the book was written and the cultural legacies in which it looms large. The volume affirms Huxley’s prescient critiques of modernity and his continuing relevance to debates about political power, art, and the vexed relationship between nature and humankind. Individual chapters explore connections between Brave New World and the nature of utopia, the 1930s American Technocracy movement, education and social control, pleasure, reproduction, futurology, inter-war periodical networks, motherhood, ethics and the Anthropocene, islands, and the moral life. The volume also includes a ‘Foreword’ written by David Bradshaw, one of the world’s top Huxley scholars. Timely and consistently illuminating, this collection is essential reading for students, critics, and Huxley enthusiasts alike.
Aldous Huxley Annual
Title | Aldous Huxley Annual PDF eBook |
Author | Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3643916353 |