| Description |
286 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
"Understanded of the People" / The New English Bible -- The innocence of Henry Miller -- Homer's Shining Raiment / The Odyseey -- Blacks, Whites, and Grays / James Baldwin -- The Best of Hemingway -- A New Life for a Good Man / Bernard Malamud -- Marianne Moore at Seventy-Four -- In the Jungles of Brooklyn / Daniel Fuchs -- The Sadness of Cesare Pavese -- O'Faolain's Wonderful Fish -- The Wash of the World / Djuna Barnes -- Moviegoing and Other Intimacies / Walker Percy -- Some Questions About Herman Wouk -- A Novelist of Great Promise / Philip Roth -- No Country for Young Men / James Baldwin -- The Yiddish Hawthorne / Issac Bashevis Singer -- Love and Death in a Russian Novel / Fyodor Sologub -- The Priest with the Fishnet Hatband / J.F. Powers -- An Exceptional First Novel / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Leaping for Goodly Themis / Jane Harrison -- Poetics, Dogmatics, and Parabolics / W.H. Auden -- John Steinbeck and the Nobel Prize -- The Extremes of E.E. Cummings -- J.D. Salinger's House of Glass -- Chiron at Olinger High / John Updike -- Sin in Portugal / Eca De Queiroz -- The Goddess and the Schlemiel / Thomas Pynchon -- The English Iliad / Sir Thomas Malory -- Fruitcake at Tiffany's / Truman Capote -- Dr. Chekhov's Diagnosis -- A Dying Life / Italo Svevo -- Antique Harvester, Lovely Ritualist / John Crowe Ransom -- An Inept Symbolist / Guenter Grass -- In Defense of Pornography / John Cleland, Rey Anthony -- A Japwnese Master / Junichiro Tanizaki -- Nabokov's Gift -- The Great Fitzgerald -- Seeing Fitzgerald Plain -- John Cheever's Golden Egg -- The American Adam / John Barth -- Ernest Hemingway With a Knife -- Jewish, All Too Jewish / Wallace Markfield -- The Spire of Babel / William Golding -- Daniel Curley's Story -- Man Criticizing / George P. Elliott -- New Voices of Isaac Babel -- Reason of Madness / Janet Frame -- The Bible as History / Werner Keller -- Ralph Ellison in Our Time -- The Correction of Opinion / James Purdy -- Snopeslore / William Faulkner -- The Austerities of the New Novel / Alain Robbe-Grillet -- T.S. Eliot's Immortality -- Norman Mailer's Yummy Rump |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Littérature -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique. |
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