Morning, Noon, and Night
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From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life s most significant stages growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood Huck Finn s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers al
Author: Arnol Weinstein
Format: Hardback, 442 pages, 163mm x 242mm, 730 g
Published: 2011, Random House USA Inc, United States
Genre: Literary Criticism
From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life s most significant stages growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein s provocative and engaging new book, Morning, Noon, and Night, explores classic writing s insights into coming-of-age and surrendering to time, and considers the impact of these revelations upon our lives. With wisdom, humor, and moving personal observations, Weinstein leads us to look deep inside ourselves and these great books, to see how we can use art as both mirror and guide. He offers incisive readings of seminal novels about childhood Huck Finn s empathy for the runaway slave Jim illuminates a child s moral education; Catherine and Heathcliff s struggle with obsessive passion in Wuthering Heights is hauntingly familiar to many young lovers; Dickens s Pip, in Great Expectations, must grapple with a world that wishes him harm; and in Marjane Satrapi s autobiographical Persepolis, little Marjane faces a different kind of struggle growing into adolescence as her country moves through the pain of the Iranian Revolution. In turn, great writers al