Literature and the sixth sense
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 445
Subjects: History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: Includes essays on Nathaniel Hawthorne (Scarlet letter), Henry Miller, Henry James, Arthur Koestler, Leo Tolstoy, Sigmund Freud, Franz Kafka, Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Herman Melville, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Mann, Arthur Miller, Saul Bellow, and others.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Paleface and redskin --; title: Proletarian literature: a political autopsy --; title: The cult of experience in American writing --; title: The death of Ivan Ilyich and Joseph K. --; title: The dark lady of Salem --; title: Notes on the decline of naturalism --; title: Henry Miller --; title: Attitudes toward Henry James --; title: The heiress of all the ages --; title: Koestler and homeless radicalism --; title: Tolstoy: the green twig and the black trunk --; title: Freud and the literary mind --; title: Religion and the intellectuals --; title: American intellectuals in the postwar situation --; title: An introduction to Kafka --; title: Gogol as a modern instance --; title: The myth and the powerhouse --; title: The education of Anton Chekhov --; title: Fiction and the criticism of fiction --; title: Criticism and the imagination of alternatives --; title: The native bias --; title: Dostoevsky: two short novels --; title: A note on Bernard Malamud --; title: On F.R. Leavis and D.H. Lawrence -- -- pt. 2.; title: Sketches in criticism:; title: A season in heaven --; title: Dr. Williams in his short stories --; title: Twilight of the thirties: passage from an editorial --; title: Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown --; title: The unfuture of Utopia --; title: Melville and his critics --; title: T.S. Eliot: the poet as playwright --; title: Hemingway in the early 1950s --; title: Art and the historical imagination --; title: Thomas Mann at eighty --; title: Pulling down the shrine --; title: Two subversive Russians --; title: Arthur Miller and the fallacy of profundity --; title: Saul Bellow's Passage --; title: The critic as Littérateur: Leslie Fiedler and John Aldridge --; title: Crime without punishment --; title: On pornography, Black humor, Norman Mailer, etc. --; title: Hawthorne in analysis --; title: T.S. Eliot in his posthumous essays --; title: An open secret.