Reflections through Literature: Life, Death, Baseball
Volume in the series
Publisher:Sciendo
By: Donald E. Morse
Table of contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Prologue: How to Train a Mule in the “Habits of Attention”
“We All Go Away”: The Last Moments of Old Age in The Tragedy of King Lear and Three Tall Women
The Book of Power and the Ring of Power
Starting from the Earth, Starting from the Stars: Some Uses of the Fantastic in Samuel Beckett’s Plays and James Joyce’s Ulysses
Overcoming Isolation in Ulysses
“The economics of utter idiocy”: The Rise and Demise of the Celtic Tiger
Of the Tortoise, Baseball, and the Family Farm: Fantasy and Nostalgia in W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe (1982) and Phil Allen Robinson’s Field of Dreams (1989)
W. H. Auden in the Century of Moloch: The Poet’s Biography and His Poetry of War
Kurt Vonnegut: The Representative Post-World War II American Writer
In Memoriam: Sam Shepard
Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn: Stories to Illuminate Truth and Lies to Hide Pain
“Imagining Strange Worlds”: Sam Baneham’s The Cloud of Desolation (1982)
“Glorious the song / When God’s the theme”: Christopher Smart’s A Song to David
My Rumanian Holiday
A Nation Dismembered
The Ditches of Hell: Csaba Lászlóffy’s The Heretic; or, A Plague of Slugs
Bearing Witness: The Absurdoid Theatre of Géza Páskándi
Acknowledgments
Index
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PDF ISBN: 978-83-68412-56-7 | E-Pub ISBN: 978-83-68412-57-4 | Paperback ISBN: 978-83-68412-55-0 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/9788368412567
Publisher: Sciendo
Copyright owner: © 2026 Donald E. Morse, published by Sciendo
Publication date: 2026
Language: English
Pages: 218
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