Directions in contemporary literature / Philo M. Buck, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buck, Philo M., Jr. (Philo Melvin), 1877-1950.

Contributor:

Mahler-Werfel Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century.

Literature, Modern.

Genre:

Literature.

Penn Provenance:

Arlt, Gustave O. (Gustave Otto), b. 1895 (autograph, Easter 1944) (RBC copy)

Arlt, Gusti (inscription, Easter 1944) (RBC copy)

Werfel, Franz, 1890-1945 (inscription, Easter 1944) (RBC copy)

Mahler, Anna (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

xiii, 353 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm

8vo.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [1942]

Contents:

Introduction: Fear

The search for beauty: George Santayana

A return to nature: Gerhart Hauptmann

The eternal adolescent: André Gide

Futility in masquerade: Luigi Pirandello

The waters under the earth: Marcel Proust

The new tragedy: Eugene O'Neill

The conscience of India: Rabindranath Tagore

Sight to the blind: Aldous Huxley

Go to the ant: Jules Romains

The idol of the tribe: Mein Kampf

The Marxian formula: Mikhail Sholokhov

Faith of our fathers: T.S. Eliot

The promise and the blessing: Thomas Mann

Till hope creates: Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries RBC copy is inscribed by Gustave Arlt and his wife Gusti Arlt to Franz Werfel: "unserm besten Franzl, Gustave und Gusti." The inscription is entirely in the hand of Gustave Arlt.

Other Format:

Online version: Buck, Philo Melvin, 1877-1950. Directions in contemporary literature.

OCLC:

1637519