| Description |
256 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-256). |
| Contents |
[1.] Fifties: A Negro in America (Ralph Ellison) -- Stories of Bernard Malamud -- Suburbs of Babylon (Philip Roth) -- Mailer's political novel (Norman Mailer) -- Snopes saga (William Faulkner) -- In the day of a false Messiah (Isaac Bashevis Singer) -- Stories of Isaac Babel -- Tomato or cucumber? (Alain Robbe-Grillet) -- Culture and radicalism (Richard Chase) -- Anti-Semite and Jew (Milton Hindus) -- Henry James as Latter-Day Saint -- God, man and Stalin (Whittaker Chambers) -- [2.] Sixties: Richard Wright: a word of farewell -- Salinger cult (J.D. Salinger) -- Flannery O'Connor's stories -- Treacheries of faith (Crawford Power) -- A fine novel of academic life (John Williams) -- Doris Lessing: no compromise, no happiness -- Stories of Pirandello (Luigi Pirandello) -- George Eliot in her letters -- Country of the pointed firs (Sarah Orne Jewett) -- Robert Frost: a momentary stay -- A neglected American poet (Frederick Tuckerman) -- Literature on the couch (Leslie Fiedler) -- Wounds of all generations (Ernest Hemingway) -- Southern agrarians and American culture -- Endgame: the fate of modernism (Renato Poggioli) -- W.E.B. DuBois: glory and shame -- [3.] Seventies: Delmore Schwartz: an appreciation -- George Konrad: the traffic of suffering -- Plebeian realism of James Hanley -- Poetry of Isaac Rosenberg -- Privacy for Joyce? (James Joyce) -- Lillian Hellman and the McCarthy years -- Lionel trilling: sincerity and authenticity -- A man of letters (Edmund Wilson) -- Octavio Paz: Mexican modernist -- Tribune of socialism (Norman Thomas) -- Holocaust and moral judgment (Lucy Dawidowicz) -- Literature and liberalism. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- Book reviews.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Genre/Form |
Book reviews.
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Book reviews.
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Reviews.
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Reviews.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Howe, Irving. Celebrations and attacks. New York : Horizon Press, c1979 (OCoLC)561896354 |
| ISBN |
0818011769 : $14.95 |
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9780818011764 |
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