Title: American cultural critics /
Authors: Murray, David,
Date: 1995
Publisher: University of Exeter Press,
Physical description: vi, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: P
Abstract: "American Cultural Critics covers a wide range of twentieth century intellectuals and cultural commentators whose work has constituted an engagement with American society and its values. These specially commissioned essays examine the central themes of American postwar intellectual history and explore the complex ways in which the underlying terms of cultural criticism have been both shared and contested. Contributors include Michael Wood, Richard King, Helen Carr and Lawrence J. Friedman."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction / David Murray -- Southern Literary and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century: The Agrarians to Richard Weaver / Michael Kreyling -- The Agony of the Avant-Garde: Philip Rahv and the New York Intellectuals / Hugh Wilford -- F. O. Matthiessen's "Devotion to the Possibilities of Democracy" and his Place as an American Intellectual / Richard Bradbury -- Susan Sontag: The Intellectual and Cultural Criticism / Liam Kennedy -- Stanley Carell: Must We Believe What We Say? / Michael Wood -- The Person in Place: Lewis Mumford, Pioneer of Cultural Criticism / Clive Bush -- Coming of Age in America: Margaret Mead and Karen Horney / Helen Carr -- Erik H. Erikson's Critical Themes and Voices: The Task of Synthesis / Lawrence J. Friedman -- Philip Rieff / Jerry Z. Muller -- Hannah Arendt / Richard H. King -- Garry Wills / Stephen J. Whitfield -- Black Intellectuals Past and Present / Ross Posnock -- Culture at Modernity's End: Daniel Bell and Fredric Jameson / Nick Heffernan.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.; Criticism--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.; Criticism--United States--History--20th century; United States--Intellectual life--20th century.