Waiting for the end : the crisis in American culture and a portrait of twentieth century American literature / by Leslie A. Fiedler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fiedler, Lesla A.

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Delta book

A Delta book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

United States--Civilization--1945-.

United States.

Civilization.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : [Published by Dell Publishing Co., Inc.], 1965.

Contents:

The death of old men

War, exile, and the death of honor

The beginning of the Thirties: depression, return, and rebirth

The end of the Thirties: artificial paradises and real hells

Zion as Main Street

Jewish-Americans, go home!

Indian or Injun?

The jig is up!

The war against the academy

The alteration of consciousness

The end of the novel

Traitor or Laureate: the two trials of the poet

The unbroken tradition

Toward the suburbs: the fear of madness, and the death of the "I"

Into the cafés: a kind of solution.

Notes:

"Reprinted by arrangement with Stein and Day, Publishers."

"Cover design by Glazer and Tesch."

"First Delta printing - March, 1965."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok December 1965 New York".

Potok Collection copy has underlines and marginal marks.

OCLC:

5304812