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Tag Archives: Existentialism
Joan Didion: Conversations and Essays
Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, 1984 Introduction: Play It As It Lays shows a preoccupation with existentialism. She examines the nothingness of the void as in Sartre and Camus—particularly The Myth of Sisyphus. Kierkegaard She does … Continue reading
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Tagged 1967, 60s, abortion, Anna Karenina, Boca Grande, California, Camus, Dark Side, Death, Depression, Despair, disconnect, Eden, Edenic, El Dorado, Ellen G Friedman, empty, Evert McClella, excess, Exiles, Existentialism, Fantasy, Griffin Wolff, Guilt, Heart of Darkness, Height-Asbury, Hemingway, Hester Prynne, High, historical loss, History, Hollywood, imprisoned, indulge, Jennifer Brady, Jim Morrison, Joan Didion: Essays and Conversations Edited by G. Friedman, John Cheever, John Gregory Dunne, Joseph Conrad, Joyce Carol Oates, Keirkgaard, Lacking, Landscape, Lily Knight, Literary Imagination, Loss, Lost Paradise, Madam Bovary, Meaningless, Michelle Kakutani, Mind, Misdirected Dream, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nihilism, no faith, No God, Party, Play It As It Lays, problems, Romantic Degradation, Run River Run, San Fransisco, Severance from the Past, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, society, Southern California, Stuck, Susan Stramburg, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, the break up an order, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Scarlett Letter, The Self, The Summer of Love, The Wasteland, The White Album, time, Timeless, Tragic Obsolence, Trapped, TS Elliot, usually women, Victor Strandlberg, whose lines are tangled and troubled. In all her work, Willa Cather
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Shaw: A Reassessment
Bernard Shaw: A Reassessment Colin Wilson, 1969 Shaw grew up with a mother who paid little attention to him. She had suffered abuse herself and thought it best to leave him alone. Shaw was naturally shy and introverted. He made … Continue reading
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Tagged 1900s, 1912, A Doll's House, A Reassessment, Abraham Maslow, Affairs, Animal Passivity, Arms and the Man, Back to Methuselah, Bax, Beethoven, Buoyant Billions, Charlotte Payne Townshed, Colin Wilson, Creative Evolution, D.H. Lawrence, Depths of Your Conviction, Domestic Partnership, Evolved, Existentialism, Fabian Society, Faust, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, Ghost Writer, Goethe, Handle, Hero, Human Beings, Ibsen, Imagination, Immense Fields of Knowledge, Intellect, Irrational Knot, Karl Marx, Life-Force, Master, Mother Figure, Neitszche, New Estate, Nihilism, Novels, Plays, Psychology, Pygmalion, Sensitive, Shy, Slave, Socialist, Wagner, What Shall We Do?, World Classic
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Sartre Says Religion Isn’t Responsibilty
Sartre Says Religion Isn’t Responsibility Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Sartre fills his plays with many moral lessons for us. He has much to say on life, love, responsibility and the existential dilemma we all face. One very important … Continue reading
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Tagged 1996, Acceptance, Blame, Caril Gilkison, Choices, Crutch, Electra, Escape, Existentialism, Fred, French Literature in Translation, Lizzie, Mary Joyce, No Exit and other Plays, Orestes, OSU, regret, Religion, Responsibility, Sartre, Scapegoat, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute, Zeus
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Zen and the Art of Shaw
Zen and the Art of Shaw There are several philosophies that run throughout Buoyant Billions, but the two conflicting philosophies of existentialism and creative evolution create a unique tension in the play. Shaw’s attempt to reconcile … Continue reading
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Tagged Anatomy of Criticism, balance, Bill Buoyant, Billions, Buoyant Billions, C.D. Sidhu, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Charles A. Berst, Clemintina, Creative Evolution, Dan H Lawrence, Darkie, Duality, Eric Bently, Existence and Being, Existentialism, Far Fetched Fables, George Bernard Shaw, God-Within, Hoochlipoochli, Jack Kornfield, Junius, Life-Force, Martin Heidegger, Michael Holroyd, Northrop Frye, Patterns of Tragicomedy in Bernard Shaw, Robert F Whitman, Secondborn, Shakes Vs Shav, Shaw and Religion, Steven Joyce, The Play of Ideas, The Shavian, Transformations and Texts, World Betterer, Zen and the Art of Shaw
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