Irving Howe and the critics
Subtitle: celebrations and attacks
By: edited and with an introduction by John Rodden.
Contributors: Rodden, John.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Howe, Irving.; Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920-93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more, wrote dozens of articles and reviews, and edited the magazine Dissent for forty years after founding it. His writings cover subjects ranging from U.S. labor to the vicissitudes of American communism and socialism to Yiddishkeit and contemporary politics." "John Rodden has chosen essays and reviews that focus on Howe's major works and on the disputes they generated. He features both Dissent contributors and those who have dissented from the Dissenters - on the Right as well as the Left. Rodden includes a few stern assessments of Howe from his less sympathetic critics, testifying not only to the range of response - from admiration to hostility - that his work received but also to his stature on the Left as a prime intellectual target of neoconservative fire."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A man of the Left / Mark Levinson and Brian Morton; title: Journey of a Social Democrat / Ronald Radosh; title: An ex-Maoist looks at an ex-Trotskyist : on Howe's Leon Trotsky / Ian Williams; title: Our "Uncle Irving" : Howe's conservative strain / Samuel Hux; title: Irving and the New Left : from fighter to leader / Marshall Berman; title: Irving Howe, R.I.P. : a few tasteless words / Alexander Cockburn; title: The old people's socialist league / Joseph Epstein; title: Politics and the critic / Robert Boyers; title: The socialist who loved Keats / Nathan Glick; title: A lover of stories / Nicholas Howe; title: The literary craftsman / Brian Morton; title: How Irving Howe shaped my thinking life / Paul Roazen; title: My intellectual hero : Irving Howe's "partisan" Orwell / John Rodden; title: Howe on Emerson : the politics of literary criticism / William E. Cain; title: Howe inside my head / George Scialabba; title: World of our grandparents / Morris Dickstein; title: Father figures / Leonard Kriegel; title: Of Yiddish culture and secular Jewishness / Alvin H. Rosenfeld; title: Standing guard over Irving Howe's reputation, or, Good causes attract bad advocates / Edward Alexander; title: Irving, in memoriam / Leon Wieseltier; title: The relevance of Irving Howe / Gerald Sorin; title: A steady worker / Michael Levenson.