{"product_id":"the-name-of-action-critical-essays-paperback-9780521277457","title":"The Name of Action; Critical Essays (Paperback) 9780521277457","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Name of Action\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCritical Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJohn Fraser's critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn Fraser (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521277457, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 20 December 1984\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e276 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.8 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis selection from John Fraser's essays forms a triptych with his Violence in the Arts and America and the Patterns of Chivalry (published by the Press in 1974 and 1982) and, like them, explores conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns in all three works are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse. Yet the dominant emphasis is positive. In this volume the author offers some of his finest analyses both of the workings of heroic and pastoral ideals and of the dangers of irony and nihilism in a violent world. The essays range in subject from Shakespeare to Atget's photographs of Paris, by way of American fiction, sadomasochism, literary theory and patterns of rural culture. Their implicit argument is subtle and absorbing.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Prospero's book: The Tempest revisited\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dust and dreams and The Great Gatsby\u003cbr\u003e 3. In defence of culture: Huckleberry Finn\u003cbr\u003e 4. Othello and honour\u003cbr\u003e 5. The name of action: Nelly Dean and Wuthering Heights\u003cbr\u003e 6. Crime and forgiveness: The Red Badge of Courage in time of war\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rereading Traven's The Death Ship\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 8. A dangerous book?: The Story of O\u003cbr\u003e 9. Yvor Winters: the perils of mind\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mr Frye and evaluation\u003cbr\u003e 11. Swift and the decay of letters\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 12. Theories and practices: the Hammonds' The Village Labourer\u003cbr\u003e 13. George Sturt's apprenticeship\u003cbr\u003e 14. Atget and the city\u003cbr\u003e 15. Reflections on the organic community\u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46005824225560,"sku":"9780521277457","price":27.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521277457i_b04bf5d2-1033-4154-818a-63dce227bc2f.jpg?v=1691374393","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-name-of-action-critical-essays-paperback-9780521277457","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}