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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... struggling in the lock, trying to get us through by endless labor. With us, life started up again only on the last shore. There seemed to be no middle grounds between despair and the fury of our ambition. Whenever my mother spoke of her ...
... struggle against “Puritanism,” the rejection of the old prohibitions, and the attainment of a contemporary sophistication. Our modern literature in America is at bottom only the expression of our modern life in America. That literature ...
... struggles. It is upon this elementary and visible truth— almost too elementary and visible, so close are we still to ... struggle toward the modern emancipation—and it was that—does not even hint at the lean, tragic strain in our modern ...
... answers.” Criticism can never blame anyone too much for not knowing all the answers; it needs first and always to prove itself. . . . [1942] THE OPENING STRUGGLE FOR REALISM They will have seen the Preface to On Native Grounds 55.
Critical and Personal Writings Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff. THE. OPENING. STRUGGLE. FOR. REALISM. They will have seen the new truth in larger and larger degree; and when it shall have become the old truth, they will ... Struggle for Realism.
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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 |