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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... SOLOTAROFF " Kazin was a reader before he was a critic , a man whose obvious joy in good books is palpable and contagious on the page . " -San Francisco Chronicle PRAISE FOR Alfred Kazin's America " This most thoughtfully chosen. Front ...
... Critics — United States — Biography . 5. Kazin , Alfred . 1. Title : America . II . Solotaroff , Ted . 810.9 - dc21 III . Title . PS29.K38A25 2003 ISBN 0-06-051276-8 ( pbk . ) 2003049997 04 05 06 07 08 / RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To ...
... critic's love of writers and of the literary life, the need to recognize the moment, to appropriate and to share in the lit- erary feast. And it was this feeling for movements that made Cowley redirect the literary side of The New ...
... critic aroused the reader in behalf of the imagination that had aroused him, and from where I stood at the moment, it looked as if the imagination of revolu- tion and the imagination of literature were stirred by the same fiery depths ...
... critics. The New Masses could not mention Calverton, Norman Thomas, Max Eastman, Sidney Hook, Eugene Lyons, with- out accusing them of literary plagiarism, sabotage against the Soviet state, poi- soning little children, and any and all ...
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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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