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Fiction of the forties
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Fiction of the forties / Chester E. Eisinger |
| Publié : |
Chicago, London :
The University of Chicago Press
, impr. 1965 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (392 p.) |
| Collection : | Phoenix books (Chicago) |
| Sujets : |
- Introduction: The shape of the forties
- The war novel. Background: the war behind the fiction ; Patterns of despair ; Patterns of affirmation
- Naturalism: the tactics of survival. The meaning of naturalism in the forties ; The survivors ; New voices, negro and white ; Nelson Algren: naturalism as the beat of an iron heart
- Fiction and the liberal assessment. The day of the locust for the liberal spirit ; The collapse of Marxism ; Traditional liberalism ; Budd Schulberg: the popular voice of the old liberalism ; Irwin Shaw: the popular ideas of the old liberalism ; The popular fiction of the old liberalism ; The new liberalism ; John Dos Passos and the need for rejection ; Granville Hicks and the painful process of reconstruction ; Mary McCarthy as the sceptical new liberal ; Lionel Trilling and the crisis in our culture ; A critique of the new liberalism
- Conservative imagination. Neo-conservatism and the idea vacuum ; James Gould Cozzens: the Pennsylvania voice of aggressive aristocracy ; The true religion and conservatism ; Southern conservatism ; William Faulkner: southern archetype ; Caroline Gordon: the logic of conservatism ; Andrew Lytle and Peter Taylor: conservative fiction in Tennessee ; Robert Penn Warren: the conservative quest for identity
- The new fiction. The new fiction defined: the triumph of art ; The new fiction and the gothic spirit ; Truman Capote and the twisted self ; Carson McCullers and the failure of dialogue ; Eudora Welty and the triumph of the imagination ; Paul Bowles and the passionate pursuit of disengagement ; The children of Henry James ; The two worlds of Jean Stafford
- In search of man and America. The fiction of the forties and the existential crisis ; Walter Van Tilburg Clark: amid confusion, the triumph of nature ; Wallace Stegner: the uncommitted ; Wright Morris: the artist in search of America ; Saul Bellow: man alive, sustained by love
- Appendix: Fiction of the forties