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The devil gets his due : the uncollected essays of Leslie Fiedler / edited by Samuele F.S. Pardini.
Van Pelt Library PS3556.I34 D48 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fiedler, Leslie A.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Popular literature--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- United States.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Popular culture--Philosophy.
- Popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xxviii, 315 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Sympathy for the Devil. Looking Backward for a New Tradition / Samuele F.S. Pardini xiii
- Toward an Amateur Criticism 3
- "Giving the Devil His Due" 13
- Explication de Texte Inferno Canto XXVI 25
- D. H. Lawrence on D. H. Lawrence As Told to Leslie A. Fiedler 34
- The Deerslayer 37
- Come Back to the Raft Ag'in, Huck Honey! 46
- New England and the Invention of the South 54
- Huckleberry Finn: The Book We Love to Hate 64
- "As Free as Any Cretur..." 77
- 1601 86
- Is Shakespeare Dead? 92
- The State of Writing 99
- Edmund Wilson's Criticism: A Re-examination 104
- The Ordeal of Criticism 107
- Love is not Enough 111
- The Intellectual Roots of Anti-Intellectualism 115
- A Fortyish View 120
- Intellectual Uncles 125
- The Canon and the Classroom: A Caveat 128
- Ezra Pound: The Poet as Parodist 136
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald 148
- Pop Goes the Faulkner: In Quest of Sanctuary 149
- Looking Back After 50 Years 162
- Robert Penn Warren: A Final Word 172
- Capote's Tale 181
- The City and the Writer 183
- Style and Anti-Style in the Short Story 187
- The Higher Unfairness 199
- Encounter with Death 202
- A Homosexual Dilemma 204
- The Noble Savages of Skid Row 207
- Up from Adolescence 210
- The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut: Portrait of the Novelist as Bridge over Troubled Water 215
- Notes on Philip Jose Farmer 230
- The Return of James Branch Cabell; Or, the Cream of the Cream of the Jest 236
- Who Really Died in Vietnam? The Cost in Human Lives 246
- James Fenimore Cooper: The Problem of the Bad Good Writer 252
- Mythicizing the Unspeakable 263
- The Legend 274
- Getting It Right: The Flag Raisings at Iwo Jima 282
- Mythicizing the City 296
- Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? That's Amore... 304.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvii-xxviii).
- ISBN:
- 9781593761882
- 1593761880
- OCLC:
- 166386717
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