| Edition |
1st ed.] |
| Description |
513 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Rev. ed. published as: Contemporaries, from the 19th century to the present. New and rev. ed. c1982. |
| Contents |
THE BACKGROUND OF MODERN LITERATURE -- RELEVANCE OF THE AMERICAN PAST -- Ishmael and Ahab -- Dry light and hard expressions -- Thoreau's lost journal -- Called back -- goold old Howells -- Stephen Crane's Scarlet woman -- A leftover transcendentalist: John Jay Chapman -- And the war came -- OLD BOYS, MOSTLY AMERICAN -- Dreiser: the esthetic of realism -- The mystery of Gertrude Stein -- Lady Chatterley in America -- The youngest man who ever was -- Sinclair Lewis: hail and farewell -- John P. Marquand and the American Failure -- William Faulkner: the stillness of Light in August -- William Faulkner: more snopeses -- William Faulkner: The short stories -- Graham Greene and the age of absurdity -- The great American bore -- FAMOUS SINCE THE WAR -- A brilliant boy from the Midlands -- The southern "City of Soul" -- Nelson Algren on the wild side -- Good-by to James Agee -- Lawrence Durrell's rosy-finger'd Egypt -- The posthumous life of Dylan Thomas -- Bernard Malamud: the magic and the dread -- The Alone Generation -- The world of Saul Bellow -- Gravity and grace: the stories of J. F. Powers -- In praise of Robert Lowell -- J.D. Salinger: "Everybody's Favorite" -- Brendan Behan: the causes go, the Rebels remain -- How good is Norman Mailer? -- Truman Capote and the army of wrongness -- The essays of James Baldwin -- Tough-minded Mr. Roth -- THE EUROPEAN CURRENT -- The plant, man, is more robust and large in Rome than elsewhere -- Sholom Aleichem: the old country -- Thmoas Mann: or the German as Novelist -- The Saint as Schemiel --Facing it -- A condemned man: Albert Camus -- The least of these -- No sky for Renaud |
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PLACES -- Gastprofessor fur Amerikanistik -- In Puerto Rico -- From a Russian diary -- Pasternak's wake -- At ease in Zion -- FREUD AND HIS CONSEQUENCES -- Sigmund Freud, 1856-1956: portrait of a hero -- Psychoanalysis and literary culture today -- The lesson of the master -- The conquistador: or Freud in his letters -- The language of Pundits -- THE PUZZLE OF MODERN SOCIETY -- The uses of experience -- Old revolutionists: Dwight Macdonald -- Edmund Wilson on the Thirties -- The ghost of Leon Trotsky -- The historian at the center -- The education of T.S. Mattews -- What's wrong with culture -- Art is good for you -- The village today: or the music the money makes -- Youth is a pressure group -- Eichmann and the New Israelis -- The President and other intellectuals -- THE CRITIC'S TASK -- Writing for magazines -- Saints for our time -- Father Rexroth and the beats -- Tynan's theater -- The poet against the English department -- The function of criticism today. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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