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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Looks at the American quest for happiness and rejection of melancholy and argues that melancholia is actually essential to a thriving culture, the underlying impetus for creative thinking, and the muse of great art and innovation.
Author
Description
Bittersweetness is a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy when beholding beauty. It recognizes that light and dark, birth and death-bitter and sweet-are forever paired. A song in a minor key, an elegiac poem, or even a touching television commercial all can bring us to this sublime, even holy, state of mind-and, ultimately, to greater kinship with our fellow humans....
4) Acedia & me
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (approximately 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Kathleen Norris's masterpiece: a personal and moving memoir that resurrects the ancient term acedia, or soul-weariness, and brilliantly explores its relevancy to the modern individual and culture.
5) Hamlet
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 182 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Prince Hamlet plots revenge after he discovers his uncle murdered his father, the king. This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
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