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Essays on literature and politics, 1932-1972

Title: Essays on literature and politics, 1932-1972 / Philip Rahv ; edited by Arabel J. Porter and Andrew J. Dvosin ; with a memoir by Mary McCarthy.
Author: Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.
Publication: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1978.

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Description

xvi, 366 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

[I. American writing and writers] Paleface and Redskin. Cult of experience in American writing. F. Scott Fitzgerald on the Riviera. Dark Lady of Salem. Heiress of all the ages. Saul Bellow's progress. Crime without punishment. On pornography, black humor, Norman Mailer, etc. T.S. Eliot in his posthumous essays. Delmore Schwartz : the paradox of precocity. Henry James and his cult -- [II. Russian and European literature] Dostoevsky in the Possessed. Legend of the Grand Inquisitor. Dostoevsky in Crime and punishment. Dostoevsky : descent into the Underground. The other Dostoevsky. Tolstoy : the green twig and the black trunk. Gogol as a modern instance. Education of Anton Chekhov. Two subversive Russians. Dubious battle. Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown. Introduction to Kafka. On F.R. Leavis and D.H. Lawrence -- [III. Politics, Religion, and Culture] Excerpts from "The literary class war". Trials of the mind. Proletarian literature : a political autopsy. Twilight of the thirties : passage from an editorial. Religion and the intellectuals. Sense and nonsense of Whittaker Chambers. American intellectuals in the postwar situation. Great outsider. Liberal anticommunism revisited. Princess. What and where is the New Left?

ISBN

039527270X
9780395272701

LCCN

78013373

OCLC

ocm04193927
4193927
SCSB-160782

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library