10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MITTY-LIKE»
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American Masculinity Under Clinton: Popular Media and the ...
Time and again, Martin's inner thoughts are represented in these Mitty-like
dreams. Like Walter Mitty, Martin dreams a world separate from the one in which
he lives. While Mitty imagines himself as the commander or fantasizes that he is a
...
2
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A henpecked husband copes with the frustrations of his dull life by imagining he is a fearless airplane pilot, a brilliant doctor, and other dashing figures.
Finally, at fifty, through the impersonality of a true-false questionnaire, Mitty, like
Newton, was able to hint what the problem was. (I have italicized his ad-libbed
comments.) "My day dreams enable me to need other people less — presumably.
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The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard ...
Remember, in the public realm, Mitty, like the character in box C, but unlike Julius
, does not make theoretical judgments. He does not let his private irony affect his
public actions. He, like Rorty, sees a firm split between the public and the ...
5
American Culture in the 1930s
Not without coincidence, the Superman comic strip, launched in 1938, embodied
similar masculine/boyhood fantasies with the all-powerful hero hiding behind the
Mitty-like disguise of Clark Kent.83 In reconsidering such 'escapist' elements of ...
David Nicholas Eldridge, 2008
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Dostoyevsky's Stalker and Other Essays on Psychopathology ...
She has disrupted her husband's fantasies, and the pounding of the cylinders of
the Commander's SN202, “ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa,”
decreases.7 Mitty, like Olenka Plemmyannikova, Leonard Zelig, Frank Abagnale,
Tom ...
7
American Literature Review
Second, the story influenced on other humorists, notably Harvey Kurtzman (one
of the creators of Mad magazine), playwright George Axelrod (who used Mitty-like
fantasies in The Seven Year Itch) and animator Chuck Jones (who created a ...
8
The American Literature CLEP Exam
Second, the story influenced on other humorists, notably Harvey Kurtzman (one
of the creators of Mad magazine), playwright George Axelrod (who used Mitty-like
fantasies in The Seven Year Itch) and animator Chuck Jones (who created a ...
Bob*Star Publishing, 2011
9
The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson: Writing, the ...
Rorty indeed has recently joked about "the Walter Mitty-like role" puffed up
culture-critics assign themselves in "the immanent teleology of world history"13
— though I wonder if the identificatory pleasures of Rorty's cutting a Jameson
down to ...
10
Politics of the Imagination: The Life, Work and Ideas of ...
This Mitty-like inability to pull on two socks one after another was, as it were,
Oswald's Fortean "wild talent". The world of course, is always looking for two-
socked folk, those wearing one sock not usually regarded as being of great
account.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MITTY-LIKE»
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At 57, 100-plus baseball games and the midnight shift on Belmont …
It impresses me how he has kept that Walter Mitty-like enthusiasm all these years.'' Strassmann, who played trumpet in the UMass Jazz ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Reliving migration that helped settle America's West
... readers are sure to be delighted by this humorous and entertaining story that allows us to believe that Walter Mitty-like fantasies can indeed ... «Winston-Salem Journal, Jul 15»
Review: 'The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey' by Rinker Buck
... readers are sure to be delighted by this humorous and entertaining story that allows us to believe that Walter Mitty-like fantasies can indeed ... «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
Book review: Reliving migration that helped settle America's West
... sure to be delighted by this humorous and entertaining story that allows us to believe that Walter Mitty-like fantasies can indeed come true. «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
Book review: 'The Oregon Trail' relives migration that helped settle …
... readers are sure to be delighted by this humorous and entertaining story that allows us to believe that Walter Mitty-like fantasies can indeed ... «Tulsa World, Jul 15»
Review: Reliving migration that helped settle America's West
... readers are sure to be delighted by this humorous and entertaining story that allows us to believe that Walter Mitty-like fantasies can indeed ... «Albany Times Union, Jun 15»
American Gladiators gave misfit athletes a second chance to be …
Hailing the tournament's first champions, Adamle describes them as being Walter Mitty-like: just everyday weekend warriors, treating a ... «A.V. Club Austin, Jun 15»
NY Post: 'Williams Will Likely Lose Anchor Chair' at NBC
It's been a long process for NBC News, trying to dig out of the embarrassment from the inventive Mitty-like mind of Brian Williams, but the New ... «NewsBusters, Jun 15»
Kejriwal's dangerous predicament
It would seem that he has a Walter Mitty-like ability to get carried away by his imagination. After the demise of the Independence Generation, ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jun 15»
Review: In 'The D Train,' Jack Black and James Marsden in a …
Dan dreams, as you see in an amusing Walter Mitty-like fantasy, that landing Oliver will turn him into the conquering reunion hero. «New York Times, May 15»
