The critic's credentials: essays & reviews
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1. Verfasser: Hyman, Stanley Edgar 1919-1970 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pettingell, Phoebe ca. 1954- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Atheneum 1978
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Beschreibung:Contents: 1. The critic's credentials -- Ideas in fiction -- Eight propositions about literature and society -- 2. The handle: Nabokov's Invitation to a beheading and Bend sinister -- Richard Wright reappraised -- Kenneth Burke at seventy -- A multitude of lieblings -- The art of Joseph Mitchell -- Mark Twain, half Twain -- Truths from the grave (Edgar Lee Masters) -- Anthropologist of Gopher Prairie (Sinclair Lewis) -- Prince Myshkin in Hollywood (Nathanael West) -- Couplings (John Updike) -- The book of the year? (Philip Roth) -- Fun and Love (John Barth) -- Germ's choice, shame's voice (James Joyce) -- The Lawrence mob -- Playing doctor, playing war (Peter Everett) -- The bulging pockets of Anthony Carson -- 3. The blues -- Really the blues -- 4. A blow with a maize stalk (George Simeon Mwase) -- Waiting for the Bakayoko (Sembene Ousmane) -- Sad encounters (Cesare Pavese) -- The oldest story (Dino Buzzati) -- Fable Italian style (Dino Buzzati) -- Salad days, green and cold (Gottfried Keller) -- A trap named Hope (Kobo Abé) -- Conscious of the seasons (Yasunari Kawabata) -- Counting the cats (Anton Chekhov) -- Varangian times (Boris Pilnyak) -- A Scythian humanist (Evgeny Zamyatin) -- Nabokov's distorting mirrors -- 5. A Darwinian sidelight: the shape of the young man's nose -- Images of Sigmund Freud -- Jessie Weston and the forest of Brocelainde -- Myths and mothers (Johann Jacob Bachofen) -- Illumination for the unchurched (NEB Old Testament) -- History and sacred history
Beschreibung:23 cm

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