A Critic's Notebook

Howe, Irving

ISBN 10: 0151199493 / ISBN 13: 9780151199495

Verlag: Harcourt, Brace, 1994

Beschreibung

(1st) Edited and Intro. by Nicholas Howe. Essays on Bennett, Woolf, Characterization, Criticism, Dickens, Kipling, Tolstoy and others. Sturdy book, dark blue covers, very bright gilt lettering on spine, a pattern of publisher's dates inside covers and adjacent end papers, 364 pages. DJ glossy beneath mylar with dark gray spine and font left, back right, light gray elsewhere, praise on back from The New Yorker and the Chicago Tribune. DJ and book, both As New.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 09603

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Critic's Notebook
• Verlag: Harcourt, Brace
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0151199493
• ISBN-13: 9780151199495
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Literary Criticism

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Inhaltsangabe

Irving Howe was a major intellectual presence: winner of the National Book Award for his best-selling history, World of Our Fathers; editor of Dissent, an influential left-wing magazine of opinion; professor of English at Brandeis University, Stanford University, and the City University of New York. When he died in 1993, he left behind a collection of essays on fiction which he had been working on in the last of his life. Assembled by his son, Nicholas Howe, who also provides an introduction, these accessible, idiosyncratic essays, - which Irving Howe called his shtiklach (Yiddish for "little pieces" or "morsels") - explore such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, genre. Many address both literature and politics; but all originate from a passion, a moral striving, and an abiding faith in the common reader.