Images and ideas in American culture
Subtitle: the functions of criticism : essays in memory of Philip Rahv
By: Arthur Edelstein, editor.
Contributors: Edelstein, Arthur.; Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.
Publisher: Brandeis University Press : distributed by the University Press of New England
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Hanover, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973 -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; Criticism -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-  -- Addresses, essays, lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Edelstein, A. Prologue; title: The literature and language of politics: Chomsky, N. Foreign policy and the intelligentsia. Whitfield, S.J. "Totalitarianism" in eclipse.; title: The politics of literature and language: Alter, R. Mimesis and the motive for fiction. Poirier, R. The difficulties of modernism and the modernism of difficulty. Brustein, R. The crack in the chimney, reflections on contemporary American playwriting.; title: Nemerov, H. The first country of places.; title: Philip Rahv, the critic and the man: Hindus, M. Philip Rahv. Lelchuk. A. Philip Rahv, the last years.