The Writer in America

A Great American Critic Sums Up His Views on a Nation's Life and Literature

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Kiadó:	Avon Books
Kiadás helye:	New York
Kiadás éve:	1953
Kötés típusa:	Ragasztott papírkötés
Oldalszám:	192 oldal
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Nyelv:	Angol
Méret:	18 cm x 11 cm
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"POETS AND NOVELISTS AND CRITICS," wrote Van Wyck Brooks, "are the pathfinders of society: to them belongs the vision without which the people perish." But in the course of Brooks' long and amazingly productive life, he came to the recognition that both the nation and its writers were betraying the hopes he held for them. In one of his last works, his controversial THE WRITER IN AMERICA, Brooks lets loose a withering blast at those writers who have failed to attain 'maturity and at the ((cult of youth" which has established a tradition of adolescence in American writing. At the same time he defines the traditions of American literature and calls out for a liberal humanism with a positive set of values . . . . . Whoever today has the courage to say these thmgs, we ignore at our own risk." THE NEW YORK HERALD TRIBÜNÉ %

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CONTENTS
I. On Certain Critics 13
II. "Makers and Finders" 41
III. Beyond Adolescence 69
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IV. Transnationalism 89
V. The Silent Generation 110
VI. A Prophet of Our Day 130
VII. Writers and the Future 152
Index. 187