How to Live What To Do
Josh Cohen
How to Live What To Do
Josh Cohen
- Wydawnictwo: Ebury Press
- Rok wydania: 2022
- ISBN: 978-1-78503-980-5
- Ilość stron: 356
- Format: 12.5 x 19.8 cm
- Oprawa: Miękka
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Opis: How to Live What To Do - Josh Cohen
What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading
Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther
Greenwood's glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar
help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death
from Virginia Woolf?
Literature matters. Not only does it provide escapism and entertainment,
but it also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of
ourselves we may not have seen or understood. From jealousy to grief,
fierce love to deep hatred, our inner lives become both stranger and
more familiar when we explore them through fiction.
Josh Cohen, a psychoanalyst and Professor of Modern Literary Theory,
delves deep into the inner lives of the most memorable and vivid
characters in literature. His analysis of figures such as Jay Gatsby and
Mrs Dalloway offers insights into the greatest questions about the human
experience, ones that we can all learn from. He walks us through the
different stages of existence, from childhood to old age, showing that
literature is much more than a refuge from the banality and rigour of
everyday life - through the experiences of its characters, it can show
us ways to be wiser, more open and more self-aware.
Szczegóły: How to Live What To Do - Josh Cohen
Tytuł: How to Live What To Do
Autor: Josh Cohen
Wydawnictwo: Ebury Press
Kod paskowy: 9781785039805
ISBN: 978-1-78503-980-5
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2022
Ilość stron: 356
Format: 12.5 x 19.8 cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.27 kg