Research Catalog

Title

Modern literary criticism : an anthology / edited with an introd. by Irving Howe.

Author

Howe, Irving

Publication

New York : Grove Press, 1961, c1958.

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Details

Description

viii, 438 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Literature > History and criticism
• Criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 437-438.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Modern criticism: privileges and perils -- The function of criticism / T.S. Eliot -- Emotion of multitude / William Butler Yeats -- Notes on writing a novel / Elizabeth Bowen -- Character change and the drama / Harold Rosenberg -- The interactions of words / I.A. Richards -- Art and neurosis / Lionel Trilling -- Dickens / George Santayana -- The irony of Swift / F.R. Leavis -- Clarissa and Emma as Phèdre / Dorothy Van Ghent -- Hawthorne and the problem of allegory / Yvor Winters -- Phases of fiction / Virginia Woolf -- Thackeray: Vanity fair / Arnold Kettle -- Kafka and the dream / Selma Fraiberg -- Crime and punishment / R.P. Blackmur -- Regulated hatred / D.W. Harding -- Our cousin, Mr. Poe / Allen Tate -- Dostoevsky in The possessed / Philip Rahv -- Caldwell: maker of grotesques / Kenneth Burke -- On a criticism of Thomas Hardy / Katherine Anne Porter -- Baudelaire / T.S. Eliot -- Paul Valéry and the poetic universe / William Troy -- Alexander Pope / Austin Warren -- Poetry and belief in Thomas Hardy / Delmore Schwartz -- Tradition and modernity: Wallace Stevens / J.V. Cunningham -- Timon's dog / William Empson -- Wordsworth's remorse / Herbert Read -- Satan / Arnold Stein -- Byron's Don Juan / Louis Kronenberger -- In honor of Pushkin / Edmund Wilson -- Walt Whitman / Irving Howe -- Notes on the extinction of style / Richard Chase.

OCLC

• 3215979
• SCSB-12134250

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library