Research Catalog

Title

A critic's notebook / Irving Howe ; edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe.

Author

Howe, Irving

Publication

New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994.

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Additional Authors

Howe, Nicholas.

Description

ix, 364 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Irving Howe was a major intellectual presence: winner of the National Book Award for his best-selling history, World of Our Fathers; editor of Dissent, an influential left-wing magazine of opinion; professor of English at Brandeis University, Stanford University, and the City University of New York. When he died in 1993, he left behind a collection of essays on fiction which he had been working on in the last of his life." "Assembled by his son, Nicholas Howe, who also provides an introduction, these accessible, idiosyncratic essays, - which Irving Howe called his shtiklach (Yiddish for "little pieces" or "morsels") - explore such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, genre. Many address both literature and politics; but all originate from a passion, a moral striving, and an abiding faith in the common reader."--Jacket.

Subject

• Criticism
• Literature > History and criticism

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Anecdote and storyteller -- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf -- Characters: Are they like people? -- How are characters conceived? -- Five instances of characterization -- The common reader -- Criticism of fiction -- Dickens: three notes -- Farce and fiction -- History and the novel: variations on a theme -- Kipling's Kim: ecstasies -- Naturalism and taste -- Novels of academic life -- Obscurity in the novel -- Punitive novels -- Walter Scott: falling out of the canon -- The self in literature -- Style and the novel: some preliminary paragraphs -- Tolstoy: five comments -- Tone in fiction.

ISBN

0151199493 :

LCCN

^^^94001659^

OCLC

• 29795026
• SCSB-10825377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library