Image and idea ; fourteen essays on literary themes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : [New Directions], [1949]
Subjects:
Table of 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.