Description |
265 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"A collection of articles and reviews written in the nineteen- forties and fifties." |
Contents |
PART ONE: IN GENERAL -- Prologue: The Hostile Necessity -- The Mid-Fifties: -- Decline of the classic moderns -- Postscript to the postwar generation -- The "end" of naturalism -- Higher and higher crtiticism -- The American conscience today -- The Age of Wouk: -- Marjorie Morningstar -- Time, Life, and art -- PART TWO: AMRICANS AND MODERNS -- Theodore Dreiser -- Ernest Hemingway: -- At the crossroads -- A year later -- The Nobel Prize -- John Dos Passos: -- The U.S.A. trilogy -- The failure of nerve -- The theme is fear -- Finale -- William Faulkner: Before and After the Nobel Prize: -- Interuder in the dust -- Requiem for a Nun -- Two studies of Faulkner -- A fable -- The meaning of Faulkner's humor -- Sinclair Lewis: -- Diarist of the middle-class mind -- A postscript -- Thomas Wolfe: -- Introduction to a "Portable Wolfe" -- The letters -- By Cozzens possessed -- Further Decline of the Moderns: -- John Steinbeck -- J.P. Marquand -- Summary -- PART THREE: NEWCOMERS -- The Bohemian of the national letter / Norman Mailer -- The revival of conscience / John Hersey -- The iron sanctuary / Nelson Algren -- The wise child and the New Yorker schooled of fiction / J.D. Salinger -- Novelist of the intellectuals / Saul Bellow -- And the American war novel / James Jones -- The end of innocence / William Styron -- The devil in Texas / John Howard Griffin. |
Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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