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The Golden Age of the American Essay
1945-1970
Taschenbuch von Phillip Lopate
Sprache: Englisch

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A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.

The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America--racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them--proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, and Mary McCarthy, adroitly pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, boxing, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy and Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita. Here is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," alongside Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and Flannery O'Connor's "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL.

The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America--racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them--proved fruitful topics for America's best minds. In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, and Mary McCarthy, adroitly pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, boxing, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy and Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita. Here is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," alongside Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" and Flannery O'Connor's "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
Über den Autor
Phillip Lopate
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by Phillip Lopate

James Agee, The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945)
Reinhold Niebuhr, Humor and Faith (1946)
George F. Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
Edmund Wilson, Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases (1947)
Walter Lippmann, The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy (1947)
Robert Warshow, The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948)
Harold Rosenberg, The Herd of Independent Minds (1948)
Robert K. Merton, The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948)
Leslie Fieldler, Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey! (1948)
James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village (1953)
Mary McCarthy, Artists in Uniform (1953)
Irving Howe, This Age of Conformity (1954)
E. B. White, Sootfall and Fallout (1956)
Vladimir Nabokov, On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956)
Saul Bellow, The University as Villain (1957)
Lionel Trilling, The Last Lover (1958)
A. J. Liebling, A Good Appetite (1959)
Seymour Krim, Making It! (1959)
Elizabeth Hardwick, Boston (1959)
Flannery O’Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960)
John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960)
Randall Jarrell, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960)
Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting (1961)
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure (1962)
Norman Mailer: An Evening With Jackie Kennedy (1962)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Philip Roth, Writing About Jews (1963)
Susan Sontag, Notes on “Camp” (1964)
Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
Paul Goodman, The Universal Trap (1964)
Tom Wolfe, The Girl of the Year (1964)
Edwin Denby, Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965)
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Gore Vidal, The 29th Republican Convention (1969)
Albert Murray, The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970)
Loren Eiseley, One Night’s Dying (1970)
Edward Hoagland, Home Is Two Places (1970)
Joan Didion, On the Morning After the Sixties (1970)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525567332
ISBN-10: 052556733X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lopate, Phillip
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 202 x 130 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Phillip Lopate
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
Artikel-ID: 118853355
Über den Autor
Phillip Lopate
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction by Phillip Lopate

James Agee, The Nation: Democratic Vistas (1945)
Reinhold Niebuhr, Humor and Faith (1946)
George F. Kennan, The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947)
Edmund Wilson, Paul Rosenfeld: Three Phases (1947)
Walter Lippmann, The Dilemma of Liberal Democracy (1947)
Robert Warshow, The Gangster as Tragic Hero (1948)
Harold Rosenberg, The Herd of Independent Minds (1948)
Robert K. Merton, The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy (1948)
Leslie Fieldler, Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey! (1948)
James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village (1953)
Mary McCarthy, Artists in Uniform (1953)
Irving Howe, This Age of Conformity (1954)
E. B. White, Sootfall and Fallout (1956)
Vladimir Nabokov, On a Book Entitled Lolita (1956)
Saul Bellow, The University as Villain (1957)
Lionel Trilling, The Last Lover (1958)
A. J. Liebling, A Good Appetite (1959)
Seymour Krim, Making It! (1959)
Elizabeth Hardwick, Boston (1959)
Flannery O’Connor, Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction (1960)
John Updike, Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu (1960)
Randall Jarrell, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1960)
Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting (1961)
Rachel Carson, The Obligation to Endure (1962)
Norman Mailer: An Evening With Jackie Kennedy (1962)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Philip Roth, Writing About Jews (1963)
Susan Sontag, Notes on “Camp” (1964)
Richard Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
Paul Goodman, The Universal Trap (1964)
Tom Wolfe, The Girl of the Year (1964)
Edwin Denby, Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets (1965)
N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969)
Gore Vidal, The 29th Republican Convention (1969)
Albert Murray, The Blues Idiom and the Mainstream (1970)
Loren Eiseley, One Night’s Dying (1970)
Edward Hoagland, Home Is Two Places (1970)
Joan Didion, On the Morning After the Sixties (1970)
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Genre: Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780525567332
ISBN-10: 052556733X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Lopate, Phillip
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 202 x 130 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Phillip Lopate
Erscheinungsdatum: 06.04.2021
Gewicht: 0,39 kg
Artikel-ID: 118853355
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