American Fiction in the Cold WarIn American Fiction in the Cold War Thomas Hill Schaub makes it clear that Trilling's summary was in itself a mythic reconstruction, a prominent example of the way liberal writers in the late 1940s and 1950s came to terms with their political past. Schaub's book brilliantly analyzes their efforts to reshape an "old" liberalism alleged to hold naively optimistic views of human nature, scientific reason, and social progress into a "new," skeptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil, the fragility of reason, and the ambiguity of moral decision. |
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... Existentialism and Mass Culture in Barth's The End of the Road / 163 Afterword : Contemplative Fiction and American Postmodernism / 185 Works Consulted / 195 Index / 207 Preface To write history is so difficult that most historians.
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Contents
The Liberal Narrative | 3 |
Novelistic Discourse | 25 |
The Writers Point of View | 50 |
The Unhappy Consciousness | 68 |
Ellisons Invisible Man | 91 |
Christian Realism and OConnors A Good | 116 |