Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal WritingsHarper Collins, 2004 M09 28 - 592 páginas Over the course of sixty years, Alfred Kazin's writings confronted virtually all of our major imaginative writers, from Emerson to Emily Dickinson to James Wright and Joyce Carol Oates -- including such unexpected figures as Lincoln, William James, and Thorstein Veblen. This son of Russian Jews wrote out of the tensions of the outsider and the astute, outspoken leftist -- or, as he put it, "the bitter patriotism of loving what one knows." Editor Ted Solotaroff hasselected material from Kazin's three classic memoirs to accompany his critical writings. Alfred Kazin's America provides an ongoing example of the spiritual freedom, individualism, and democratic contentiousness that he regarded as his heritage and endeavored to pass on. |
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... ideas at the table, and dis- played a quaint, cold politeness addressing each other. The Soloveys had trav- eled; they had lived in Palestine, France, Italy. They were “professional” people, “enlightened”—she, it was rumored, had even ...
... idea. All day long in our kitchen my mother and I loved each other in measures of tribulation as well worn as the Kol Nidre. We looked to each other for support; we recognized each other with a mutual sympathy and irritation; each of us ...
... idea that David had stripped their life deliberately to those chemistry textbooks , the collected works of Lenin , those Negroes on the far wall hanged , castrated , and burned in darkest Georgia . I had never seen such a naked house ...
... ideas; it was his intellectual passion for these ideas. He was humorless, but never petty; obstinate, but not malicious; domineering, but not self-centered. He did not yield to momentary delights and human appeals, as Eastman did. It ...
... ideas ; but after fifty years of optimistic con- tent with ' civilization ' and its ability to come out all right in the end , I now abhor it , and feel that it is coming out all wrong in the end , unless it bases itself anew on a real ...
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Edith Wharton and Theodore Dreiser | 65 |
Thorstein Veblen | 81 |
The Single Voice of Ralph Ellison | 282 |
Joan Didion and Joyce Carol Oates | 289 |
The Gift of Feeling | 300 |
The Priest Departs The Divine Literatus Comes | 314 |
Thoreau and American Power | 325 |
The Ghost Sense | 336 |
Melville Is Dwelling Somewhere in New York | 344 |
I Am the Man | 370 |
Sherwood Anderson and Sinclair Lewis | 90 |
Willa Cathers Elegy | 105 |
F Scott Fitzgerald | 114 |
Delmore Schwartz | 166 |
The Fascination and Terror of Ezra Pound | 181 |
The Sound and the Fury | 200 |
Flannery OConnor and Walker Percy | 213 |
The Historian at the Center | 222 |
President Kennedy and Other Intellectuals | 229 |
Cheever Salinger and Updike | 245 |
Bellow Malamud and Roth | 255 |
Capote and Mailer | 270 |
The Almighty Has His Own Purposes | 383 |
Called Back | 402 |
Our Passion Is Our Task | 423 |
Henry Adams and T S Eliot | 432 |
Edmund Wilson at Wellfleet | 455 |
The Burden of Our Time | 467 |
The Directness of Josephine Herbst | 477 |
A Parade in the Rain | 499 |
To Be a Critic | 506 |
Appendix | 523 |
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Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal Writings Alfred Kazin,Ted Solotaroff Sin vista previa disponible - 2003 |