LEADER 00000cam a22003851? 4500 001 ocm00269726 850730 005 20100629205106.0 008 730410s1958 nyu 000 0 eng 010 58008403/L 035 (OCoLC)ocm00269726 850730 035 104001 040 DLC|beng|cDLC|dm.c. 043 n-us--- 049 RIDM 050 0 PS379|b.G35 082 813.509 090 PS379 .G35 100 1 Geismar, Maxwell,|d1909-1979.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/names/n50018262 245 10 American moderns, from rebellion to conformity. 264 1 New York :|bHill and Wang,|c[1958] 300 265 pages ;|c21 cm 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 500 "A collection of articles and reviews written in the nineteen- forties and fifties." 505 2 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. 648 7 20th century|2fast 650 0 American fiction|y20th century|xHistory and criticism. |0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687 650 7 American fiction.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 807048 901 MARCIVE 20231220 935 104001
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