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Author: Philip D. Beidler
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.10cm
Weight: 0.189kg
ISBN: 9780817321260
ISBN 10: 0817321268
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 03 May 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The Great Beyond is a project that glows with polished fire of mature ambition. Philip Beidler has taken on fundamental questions of human being that lead inevitably to the same blank void we call Death. But what Beidler also knows is that human connection, Art and Beauty are bulwarks to combat this awaiting end. And what a range of proofs he has here assembled! Literature, Music, Philosophy, Sculpture, History, War, Race, Drama, Nature, Politics. The breadth and depth of this project is breathtaking--his prose meticulous and beautiful, striking deeply without fussy analysis. He is after the bone of truth and, in my view, achieves it. --Donald Anderson, author of Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel This is a thought-provoking book. The themes and issues Beidler addresses in The Great Beyond are timely and have the potential to be deeply relevant for our own era. --Margaret Hutchison, coeditor of Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War
The Great Beyond is a project that glows with polished fire of mature ambition. Philip Beidler has taken on fundamental questions of being human that lead inevitably to the same blank void we call Death. But what Beidler also knows is that human connection, art, and beauty are bulwarks to combat this awaiting end. And what a range of proofs he has assembled here: literature, music, philosophy, sculpture, history, war, race, drama, nature, and politics! The breadth and depth of this project is breathtaking--his prose meticulous and beautiful, striking deeply without fussy analysis. He is after the bone of truth and, in my view, achieves it. --Donald Anderson, author of Fragments of a Mortal Mind: A Nonfiction Novel This is a thought-provoking book. The themes and issues Beidler addresses in The Great Beyond are timely and have the potential to be deeply relevant for our own era. --Margaret Hutchison, coeditor of Portraits of Remembrance: Painting, Memory, and the First World War
Author Information
Philip D. Beidler is professor emeritus of English at the University of Alabama. He is author of several books, including Beautiful War: Studies ina Dreadful Fascination, The Victory Album: Reflections on the Good Life after the Good War, and Late Thoughts on an Old War: The Legacy of Vietnam.
