Hamlet and the Snowman: Reflections on Vision and Meaning in Life and LiteratureIn Hamlet and the Snowman, personal reflections of the author are joined with literary criticism in a common endeavor - a search to arrive at vision and meaning in life and literature. In the course of that effort, literary classics by Anderson, Shakespeare, Melville, Dostoyevsky, and Becket are analyzed, and the findings are evaluated within the framework of Newman's personal reflections. The search, taken step by step, slowly leads to those fundamental elements that make up one's vision of life and its meaning as well as recognition of their universality and similarities in both life and literature. |
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... simply by recalling the divine injunc- tion : ' A new commandment give I unto you , that ye love one another ' . " Yes , " simply by Bartleby's World 55.
... simply by recalling the divine injunc- tion : ' A new commandment give I unto you , that ye love one another ' . " Yes , " simply by Bartleby's World 55.
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... simply as props faintly visible in the background . That foreboding , why is it so , what is it ? The experience of the emotion is its authoritative descrip- tion ; words are only attempts . One may sense it as an ulti- macy in pursuit ...
... simply as props faintly visible in the background . That foreboding , why is it so , what is it ? The experience of the emotion is its authoritative descrip- tion ; words are only attempts . One may sense it as an ulti- macy in pursuit ...
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... simply , as the saying goes , man's inhumanity to man . Beckett's focus is pointed undeviatingly upon man's existence as such , the timeless , deepest meaning of it . Lucky is mankind's helper , enabling Pozzo to go on despite all that ...
... simply , as the saying goes , man's inhumanity to man . Beckett's focus is pointed undeviatingly upon man's existence as such , the timeless , deepest meaning of it . Lucky is mankind's helper , enabling Pozzo to go on despite all that ...
Contents
Prologue | 1 |
About Questions and Strangeness | 3 |
The Snowman and His Friend | 7 |
Copyright | |
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Andersen Bartleby Bartleby's Beckett become better catharsis chambers characters Claudius close comedy comes comic vision dead wall death Dostoyevsky's Estragon eyes face Falstaff fear feeling fool foreboding forget Fyodor Dostoyevsky Ginger Nut Godot gone ground grub-man heart Henry IV plays hope human existence incubus kind king knew know not seems Krapp's Last Tape lawyer less listen literature literature's living look Lucky mankind master meaning Melville metaphor mind moments mood narrator nasty ness Notes from Underground Ophelia ordinary ourselves Pause perhaps play Polonius Pozzo prefer real world Rosencrantz Samuel Beckett scene scrivener sense senseless things Shakespeare silences Sir John Falstaff someone soul sound speak stage standing staring strange tale tell thing thou thought tion truly trust truth Turkey and Nippers turn Vladimir waiting Waiting for Godot wish wonder words world riddled