| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Description |
xviii, 364 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
pt. 1. After the war: Young writer in America: 1945-1951 -- Writer in the university -- Heresy of literary manners -- Gray new world -- Function of the book critic -- War writers ten years later -- pt. 2. A backward glance: Homage to Hemingway -- A last look at the old man -- "Islands in the stream" -- Life of Gatsby: a preamble -- Dos Passos: the energy of depair -- Education of James T. Farrell -- Art and passion in Katherine Anne Porter -- Other Frost -- Death of the lions -- pt. 3. Contemporaries: Celebrity and boredom -- Norman Mailer: the energy of new success -- "Cannibals and Christians" -- From Vietnam to obscenity -- John Updike and the higher theology -- William Styron and the derivative imagination -- Good housekeeping with Mary McCarthy -- Society of Augie March -- Complacency of "Herzog" -- John Cheever and the soft sell of disaster -- James Jones: puberty in Paris -- Emergence of Eudora Welty -- Wright Morris's reputation -- Donald Barthelme and the doggy life -- Jerzy Kosinski's American dream -- pt. 4. Adversary culture: Portraits from Cranton -- Civilization in the United States -- Trashing of America -- Politics and the novel. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica) |
| ISBN |
0061202010 |
|
9780061202018 |
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