Title: Existentialism and alienation in American literature,
Authors: Finkelstein, Sidney, 1909-1974.
Publisher: International Publishers
Year: 1965
Subjects: Kierkegaard, Søren,; Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, Criticism and interpretation.; Balzac, Honoré de, Criticism and interpretation.; O'Neill, Eugene, Criticism and interpretation.; Fitzgerald, F. Scott Criticism and interpretation.; Eliot, T. S. Criticism and interpretation.; Faulkner, William, Criticism and interpretation.; Dos Passos, John, Criticism and interpretation.; Miller, Henry, Criticism and interpretation.; Salinger, J. D. Criticism and interpretation.; Miller, Arthur, Criticism and interpretation.; Mailer, Norman Criticism and interpretation.; Baldwin, James, Criticism and interpretation.; Styron, William, Criticism and interpretation.; Albee, Edward, Criticism and interpretation.; Updike, John Criticism and interpretation.; Bellow, Saul Criticism and interpretation.; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,; Marx, Karl,; Sartre, Jean-Paul,; Miller, Henry, Criticism and interpretation.; Salinger, J. D. Criticism and interpretation.; Miller, Arthur, Criticism and interpretation.; Baldwin, James, Criticism and interpretation.; Styron, William, Criticism and interpretation.; American literature History and criticism; Existentialism in literature.; Social isolation in literature.; Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.; Literature Psychology
Contents: 1. Introduction: Art and Philosophy -- 2. The Enlightenment: Doubts and Concepts of Progress -- 3. Capitalism Viewed by Kierkegaard and Marx -- 4. Dostoievsky: Realist and Anti-Realist -- 5. Nietzsche: The Myth and the Unconscious -- 6. Existentialism and German Fascism / Husserl, Heidegger and Jaspers -- 7. Social Responsibility of the Existentialist Artist / Camus and Sartre -- 8. Sociological and Literary Depiction of Alienation / Marx, Balzac and Eugene O'Neill -- 9. Alienation as a Literary Syle / F. Scott Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot -- 10. Conflict Between Humanization and Alienation / William Faulkner -- 11. Alienation and Rebellion to Nowhere / John Dos Passos and Henry Miller -- Cold War, Religious Revival and Family Alienation / William Styron, J. D. Salinger and Edward Albee -- 13. Alienated Expression and Existentialist Answers -- A. Acceptance of Alienation: John Updike and James Purdy -- B. Lost Social Convictions and Existentialism: Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow -- C. Existentialism and Social Demands: Norman Mailer and James Baldwin -- 14. The Morality of Human Progress.