Critical encounters : literary views and reviews, 1953-1977 / by Nona Balakian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Balakian, Nona.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiction--History and criticism--Collected works.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

250 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merill Company, Inc., [1978]

Contents:

Part 1. On the reading of modern fiction. Prophetic vogue of the anti-heroine. Crisis

in fiction or in readership? Flight from innocence: England's newest literary generation. New Transcendentalists: a quasi-religious mode in American fiction. Multiform American imagination. Unwilling ironists

Part 2. Three post-psychological novels. Writer and her vision: Ivy Compton-Burnett. Carson McCullers: love perverse and perfect. Affirmation and love in T.S. Eliot. Huxley revisited. Shaw and his Boswell. Memo: to Bernard Shaw. Reviews by Trilling. Criticism par excellence: V.S. Pritchett. Tragedy of delusion: criticism by Joyce Carol Oates. Poet of the air

and earth: Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Beautiful and undammed: stories by Fitzgerald. Where the center always holds: stories by Brendan Gill. God bless you, Mr. Vonnegut. Realists of the interior: women poets of today. Bitches and sad ladies. World of William Saroyan. Day of one's own: Eudora Welty

Part 3. Crossing the ethnic barrier. Spearhead of British modernism. Passion for letters: Scofield Thayer and the Dial. Specialist of the hoax: Max Beerbohm. Black odyssey, white world. Britain's lopsided view. Despiritualized Americans: Soviet views of American literature. Charmed circle: the Irish writers

Part 4. Decline of "mass markets". Lowly state of book reviewing. Poets, printers and pamphleteers. They gambled on genius.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0672523418 :

OCLC:

3415348