Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460004X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an integral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction. Also included in this collection of plays is An Open Letter to Mike Nichols, which first appeared in the New York Review of Books.
The Duke of Palermo and Other Plays
Author: Edmund Wilson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460004X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an integral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction. Also included in this collection of plays is An Open Letter to Mike Nichols, which first appeared in the New York Review of Books.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 037460004X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
The Duke of Palermo is a comedy about American academic life which is an integral part of Edmund Wilson's work and will be enjoyed by the admirers of literary chronicles, as well as by those who know his fiction. Also included in this collection of plays is An Open Letter to Mike Nichols, which first appeared in the New York Review of Books.
A babble of ancestral voices
Author: Harriet C. Frazier
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111392759
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111392759
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Edmund Wilson's America
Author: George H. Douglas
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813159237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams. In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged from Harding to Nixon, from bathtub gin to marijuana. Douglas here surveys Wilson's mordant observations on the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, income tax, suburbia, sex, populist politics, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, the failure of American scholarship, pollution of the landscape, and the breakdown of traditional American values. The Wilson who emerges from this survey is a historical writer with deep and unshakable roots in Jeffersonian democracy. Among his most far-seeing and poignant books are studies of the literature of the American Civil War and of the treatment of the American Indian. Pained by the crumbling moral order, Wilson was never completely at home in the twentieth century. In politics he was neither a liberal nor a conservative as those terms are understood today. He endured those ideologies and their adherents, but his genius was that he could bring them into hard focus from the perspective of the traditional American individualist who was too pained to accept the standardized commercial world that had grown up around him. Edmund Wilson's America offers a distinctive overview of the nation's life and culture as seen and judged by its leading man of letters.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813159237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
When Edmund Wilson died in 1972 he was widely acclaimed as one of America's great literary critics. But it was often forgotten by many of his admirers that he was also a brilliant and penetrating critic of American life. In a literary career spanning half a century, Wilson commented on nearly every aspect of the American experience, and he produced a body of work on the subject that rivals those of Tocqueville and Henry Adams. In this book, George H. Douglas has distilled the essence from Wilson's many writings on America. An active reporter and journalist as much as a scholar, Wilson ranged from Harding to Nixon, from bathtub gin to marijuana. Douglas here surveys Wilson's mordant observations on the roaring twenties, the Great Depression, income tax, suburbia, sex, populist politics, the Vietnam War, the Great Society, the failure of American scholarship, pollution of the landscape, and the breakdown of traditional American values. The Wilson who emerges from this survey is a historical writer with deep and unshakable roots in Jeffersonian democracy. Among his most far-seeing and poignant books are studies of the literature of the American Civil War and of the treatment of the American Indian. Pained by the crumbling moral order, Wilson was never completely at home in the twentieth century. In politics he was neither a liberal nor a conservative as those terms are understood today. He endured those ideologies and their adherents, but his genius was that he could bring them into hard focus from the perspective of the traditional American individualist who was too pained to accept the standardized commercial world that had grown up around him. Edmund Wilson's America offers a distinctive overview of the nation's life and culture as seen and judged by its leading man of letters.
Edmund Wilson; a Bibliography
Author: Richard David Ramsey
Publisher: New York : D. Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Publisher: New York : D. Lewis
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Edmund Wilson
Author: Charles P. Frank
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Twayne's United States Authors Series
Author:
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Antiquarian Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1382
Book Description
The Reader's Adviser
Author: Winifred F. Courtney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Modern Drama in America and England, 1950-1970
Author: Richard Hough Harris
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description