| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xx, 325 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Critic's credentials -- Ideas in fiction -- Eight propositions about literature and society -- 2. Handle: Nabokov's Invitation to a beheading and Bend sinister -- Richard Wright reappraised -- Kenneth Burke at seventy -- A multitude of lieblings -- Art of Joseph Mitchell -- Mark Twain, half Twain -- Truths from the grave (Edgar Lee Masters) -- Anthropologist of Gopher Prairie (Sinclair Lewis) -- Prince Myshkin in Hollywood (Nathanael West) -- Couplings (John Updike) -- Book of the year? (Philip Roth) -- Fun and Love (John Barth) -- Germ's choice, shame's voice (James Joyce) -- Lawrence mob -- Playing doctor, playing war (Peter Everett) -- Bulging pockets of Anthony Carson -- 3. Blues -- Really the blues -- 4. A blow with a maize stalk (George Simeon Mwase) -- Waiting for the Bakayoko (Sembene Ousmane) -- Sad encounters (Cesare Pavese) -- Oldest story (Dino Buzzati) -- Fable Italian style (Dino Buzzati) -- Salad days, green and cold (Gottfried Keller) -- A trap named Hope (Kobo Abé) -- Conscious of the seasons (Yasunari Kawabata) -- Counting the cats (Anton Chekhov) -- Varangian times (Boris Pilnyak) -- A Scythian humanist (Evgeny Zamyatin) -- Nabokov's distorting mirrors -- 5. A Darwinian sidelight: the shape of the young man's nose -- Images of Sigmund Freud -- Jessie Weston and the forest of Brocelainde -- Myths and mothers (Johann Jacob Bachofen) -- Illumination for the unchurched (NEB Old Testament) -- History and sacred history. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
| Added Author |
Pettingell, Phoebe.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Hyman, Stanley Edgar, 1919-1970. Critic's credentials. 1st ed. New York : Atheneum, 1978 (OCoLC)570274340 |
| ISBN |
0689108478 |
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9780689108471 |
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