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What was literature? : class culture and mass society
- Title
- What was literature? : class culture and mass society / Leslie Fiedler.
- Author
- Fiedler, Leslie A.
- Publication
- New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1982.
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- Additional Authors
- Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Jewish American Writers NjP
- Description
- 258 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- In a rambling series of essays -- partly analytical, partly polemical, and partly autobiographical -- Fiedler takes issue with the elitist and prescriptive tendency among the self-appointed guardians of art, and with the modern split between 'high' and 'low' forms of literature. He argues that traditional approaches to and standards of literature have become obsolete, and a criticism which ignores or condescends to Uncle Tom's Cabin, Gone with the Wind, Roots et alia can have little to say about American culture.
- Subject
- Andrae, A
- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
- Criticism > United States > History
- American literature > History and criticism
- Popular literature > United States > History and criticism
- Social classes > United States
- Race relations in literature
- Myth in literature
- Mass society
- Popular literature
- Criticism
- American literature
- Social classes
- Bestseller
- Literatur
- Literaturtheorie
- Mythos
- Trivialliteratur
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Literatuurkritiek
- Geschichte (1850-1981)
- Roman
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes index.
- gift of Leonard L. Milberg '53 in honor of President Harold T. Shapiro.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Subverting the standards -- Who was Leslie A. Fiedler? -- Literature and lucre -- Toward Pop criticism -- How did it all start? -- What was the novel? -- Literature as an institution -- What was the art novel? -- What was the death of the novel? -- What happened to poetry? -- Why was criticism? -- Is there a counter-tradition? -- What is to be done? -- From ethics and aesthetics to ecstatics -- Opening up the canon -- Home as heaven, home as hell -- The many mothers of Uncle Tom's cabin -- The anti-Tom novel and the coming of the first great war: from Thomas Dixon, Jr., to D.W. Griffith -- Gone with the wind: the feminization of the anti-Tom novel -- Alex Haley's Roots: Uncle Tom rewrites Uncle Tom's cabin -- Afterword: "A backward glance o'er travelled roads."
- ISBN
- 0671249835
- 9780671249830
- LCCN
- 82010394
- OCLC
- ocm08589321
- 8589321
- SCSB-50041
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library