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Image and idea; fourteen essays on literary themes.
Title:
Image and idea; fourteen essays on literary themes.
Author:
Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
[New York] : [New Directions], [1949]
Physical Description:
164 pages ; 22 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Paleface and redskin.--The cult of experience in American writing.--The dark lady of Salem.--The heiress of all the ages.--Attitudes toward Henry James.--Tolstoy: the green twig and black trunk.--Dosidovsky in the possessed.--The death of Ivan Ilyich and Joseph K.--Notes on the decline of naturalism.--Sketches in criticism. Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown. Henry Miller. Dr. Williams in his short stories. Koestler and homeless radicalism. DeVoto and Kulturbolschewismus.
Format :
Book