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050 00 PS29.H68|bA5 1990
082 00 814/.52|220
100 1 Howe, Irving,|eauthor
240 10 Essays.|kSelections
245 10 Selected writings, 1950-1990 /|cIrving Howe
250 1st ed
264 San Diego :|bHarcourt Brace Jovanovich,|c1990
300 xviii, 490 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references
505 0 I: The fifties -- C⥬ine: the sod beneath the skin --
Sholom Aleichem: voice of our past -- God, man, and Stalin
-- This age of conformity -- The stories of Isaac Babel --
Tomato or cucumber? -- The Snopes saga -- The stories of
Pirandello -- II: The sixties -- T.E. Lawrence: the
problem of heroism -- Anarchy and authority in American
literature -- Black boys and native sons -- The idea of
the modern -- Dreiser: the springs of desire -- Robert
Frost: a momentary stay -- Bourbon on the rocks-- New
styles in "leftism" -- Beliefs of the masters -- A grave
and solitary voice: an appreciation of Edwin Arlington
Robinson -- The New York intellectuals -- III: The
seventies -- Zola: the poetry of naturalism -- George
Konr⡤'s The case worker -- The city in literature --
Delmore Schwartz: an appreciation -- Strangers -- Lillian
Helman and the McCarthy years -- George Eliot and radical
evil -- IV: The eighties -- Oliver and Fagin -- Absalom in
Israel -- Why has socialism failed in America? --
Reaganism: the spirit of the times -- Writing and the
holocaust -- Justice for Leskov -- The fate of
Solzhenitsyn -- Thinking about socialism
520 "Combative, compassionate, objective, ironic, restless,
Howe reflects on people, ideas, and events..." A selection
from Irving Howe's work covering 40 years of writing
530 Also issued online
650 0 Essays
776 08 |iOnline version:|aHowe, Irving.|sEssays. Selections.
|tSelected writings, 1950-1990.|b1st ed.|dSan Diego :
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990|w(OCoLC)645782209