| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 572 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality of ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think" -- The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-559) and index. |
| Summary |
Collects essays on Twain, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Keats, Wordsworth, Frost, and "Mansfield Park," and includes the preface to the author's "The Liberal Imagination." |
| Subject |
Intellect -- Criticism and interpretation.
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American essays -- 20th century.
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American essays. (OCoLC)fst00807040
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Intellect. (OCoLC)fst00975732
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Essays.
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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| Added Author |
Wieseltier, Leon.
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| ISBN |
0374257949 (alk. paper) |
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9780374257941 (alk. paper) |
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