Alfred Kazin's America: Critical and Personal WritingsOver 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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Critical and Personal Writings Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff. Alfred Kazin's AMERICA CRITICAL AND PERSONAL WRITINGS EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TED SOLOTAROFF " Kazin was a reader before he was a critic , a man whose obvious joy in ...
Critical and Personal Writings Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff. ALFRED KAZIN'S AMERICA Critical and Personal Writings EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TED SOLOTAROFF ปี Perennial An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers An extension of this ...
... Kazin , Alfred . Alfred Kazin's America : critical and personal writings / edited and with an introduction by Ted Solotaroff . — 1st ed . p . cm . Includes index . ISBN 0-06-621343-6 1. American literature — 20th century — History and ...
Critical and Personal Writings Alfred Kazin, Ted Solotaroff. cally pushed at the wheel with one hand or lifted the foot to ... Kazin! Make me a dress like it shows here in the picture!” When my father came home from work she had somehow ...
... . But why that long ride home at all ? Why did they live there and we always in " Brunzvil " ? Why were they there , and we always here ? Why was it always them and us, Gentiles and us, all rightniks and us? IO ALFRED KAZIN'S AMERICA.
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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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