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Fiction of the forties.
LIBRA PS379 .E4 1963
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eisinger, Chester E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971.
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962.
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994.
- Taylor, Peter.
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984--Criticism and interpretation.
- Capote, Truman.
- Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- Warren, Robert Penn.
- Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989.
- Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999.
- Bowles, Paul.
- Faulkner, William, 1897-1962--Criticism and interpretation.
- Faulkner, William.
- Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stafford, Jean.
- Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979.
- Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981--Criticism and interpretation.
- Gordon, Caroline.
- Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981.
- Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982.
- Hicks, Granville.
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001.
- Welty, Eudora.
- Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995.
- Lytle, Andrew Nelson.
- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993--Criticism and interpretation.
- Stegner, Wallace.
- Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.
- Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984.
- Shaw, Irwin.
- Schulberg, Budd.
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989--Criticism and interpretation.
- McCarthy, Mary.
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989.
- Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dos Passos, John.
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975.
- Trilling, Lionel.
- Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978--Criticism and interpretation.
- Cozzens, James Gould.
- Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978.
- Morris, Wright, 1910-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
- Morris, Wright.
- Morris, Wright, 1910-1998.
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981--Criticism and interpretation.
- Algren, Nelson.
- Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981.
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971--Criticism and interpretation.
- Clark, Walter Van Tilburg.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 392 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1963]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The shape of the forties
- The war novel. Background: the war behind the fiction ; Patterns of despair ; Patterns of affirmation
- Naturalism: the tactics of survival. The meaning of naturalism in the forties ; The survivors ; New voices, negro and white ; Nelson Algren: naturalism as the beat of an iron heart
- Fiction and the liberal assessment. The day of the locust for the liberal spirit ; The collapse of Marxism ; Traditional liberalism ; Budd Schulberg: the popular voice of the old liberalism ; Irwin Shaw: the popular ideas of the old liberalism ; The popular fiction of the old liberalism ; The new liberalism ; John Dos Passos and the need for rejection ; Granville Hicks and the painful process of reconstruction ; Mary McCarthy as the sceptical new liberal ; Lionel Trilling and the crisis in our culture ; A critique of the new liberalism
- Conservative imagination. Neo-conservatism and the idea vacuum ; James Gould Cozzens: the Pennsylvania voice of aggressive aristocracy ; The true religion and conservatism ; Southern conservatism ; William Faulkner: southern archetype ; Caroline Gordon: the logic of conservatism ; Andrew Lytle and Peter Taylor: conservative fiction in Tennessee ; Robert Penn Warren: the conservative quest for identity
- The new fiction. The new fiction defined: the triumph of art ; The new fiction and the gothic spirit ; Truman Capote and the twisted self ; Carson McCullers and the failure of dialogue ; Eudora Welty and the triumph of the imagination ; Paul Bowles and the passionate pursuit of disengagement ; The children of Henry James ; The two worlds of Jean Stafford
- In search of man and America. The fiction of the forties and the existential crisis ; Walter Van Tilburg Clark: amid confusion, the triumph of nature ; Wallace Stegner: the uncommitted ; Wright Morris: the artist in search of America ; Saul Bellow: man alive, sustained by love
- Appendix: Fiction of the forties.
- Notes:
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 368-383).
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 167528
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