
Writers and Thinkers
Selected Literary Criticism
Daniel Fuchs(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4128-6266-0 (ISBN)
Description
This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature and ideas. Daniel Fuchs presents the writer's individuality as artist and thinker, focusing on the writer's interaction within a wide range of cultural, political, and historical periods and situations representative of the modern period. The essays reflect a progression that goes beyond chronology or historical survey in the consistency and interrelation of the literary and cultural themes explored and the references within them.
The book is built around writers who are of central concern to the author. It does not pretend to be a comprehensive framework for analysing modernism. Fuchs first deals with high modernism, in discussions of Hemingway and Stevens, who in different ways critique tradition and collapsing values. The essays that follow deal with the "contemporary," and here the focus is mainly on American Jewish writers and their cultural impact after modernism.
The author's stance is in relation not only to these traditions but to others that might be thought antagonistic: the formalism of the New Critics and the deconstructionism that reduces the author to a replaceable variable in the dialects of cultural power relations. Fuchs pays tribute to the former, illustrating wider points in literary, socio-cultural, and political history. The overall emphasis on these "extrinsic" matters underscores the book's appeal to a wide audience.
The book is built around writers who are of central concern to the author. It does not pretend to be a comprehensive framework for analysing modernism. Fuchs first deals with high modernism, in discussions of Hemingway and Stevens, who in different ways critique tradition and collapsing values. The essays that follow deal with the "contemporary," and here the focus is mainly on American Jewish writers and their cultural impact after modernism.
The author's stance is in relation not only to these traditions but to others that might be thought antagonistic: the formalism of the New Critics and the deconstructionism that reduces the author to a replaceable variable in the dialects of cultural power relations. Fuchs pays tribute to the former, illustrating wider points in literary, socio-cultural, and political history. The overall emphasis on these "extrinsic" matters underscores the book's appeal to a wide audience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4128-6266-0 (9781412862660)
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Person
Daniel Fuchs is emeritus professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA. He is author of The Limits of Ferocity, Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision", and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens.
Content
Preface1 Ernest Hemingway, Literary Critic2 Wallace Stevens and Santayana3 Saul Bellow and the Example of Dostoevsky4 Bellow and Freud5 Literature and Politics: The Bellow/Grass Confrontation6 Malamud's Dubin's Lives: A Jewish Writer and the Sexual Ethic7 More Die of Heartbreak: The Question of Later Bellow8 Identity and the Postwar Temper in American Jewish Fiction9 The Holocaust and History in Bellow and MalamudIndex