"A major portion of the material of this book was first presented in the form of lectures delivered in the Christian Guass seminars in criticism at Princeton University ... 1954."
Contents
Introduction: the choice of heresy -- Situation of the American writer -- Writer in the university -- Heresy of literary manners -- Gray new world -- Society of three novels -- Hemingway: the etiquette of the berserk -- Question of Malcolm Cowley -- Ira Wolfert: the failure of a form -- Education of James T. Farrell -- Function of the book critic.
