Research Catalog

Title

The devil in the fire; retrospective essays on American literature and culture, 1951-1971 [by] John W. Aldridge.

Author

Aldridge, John W.

Publication

New York [Harper's Magazine Press], [1972]

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Details

Description

xviii, 364 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1951-1971
• American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• American literature
• Literatur
• Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

pt. 1. After the war: The young writer in America: 1945-1951 -- The writer in the university -- The heresy of literary manners -- Gray new world -- The function of the book critic -- The war writers ten years later -- pt. 2. A backward glance: Homage to Hemingway -- A last look at the old man -- "Islands in the stream" -- The life of Gatsby: a preamble -- Dos Passos: the energy of depair -- The education of James T. Farrell -- Art and passion in Katherine Anne Porter -- The other Frost -- The death of the lions -- pt. 3. Contemporaries: Celebrity and boredom -- Norman Mailer: the energy of new success -- "Cannibals and Christians" -- From Vietnam to obscenity -- John Updike and the higher theology -- William Styron and the derivative imagination -- Good housekeeping with Mary McCarthy -- The society of Augie March -- The complacency of "Herzog" -- John Cheever and the soft sell of disaster -- James Jones: puberty in Paris -- The emergence of Eudora Welty -- Wright Morris's reputation -- Donald Barthelme and the doggy life -- Jerzy Kosinski's American dream -- pt. 4. Adversary culture: Portraits from Cranton -- Civilization in the United States -- The trashing of America -- Politics and the novel.

ISBN

• 0061202010
• 9780061202018

LCCN

77138701

OCLC

• ocm00258273
• 258273
• SCSB-171934

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library