Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0691016720 ISBN 13: 9780691016726

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums held at the Mercantile Library and at Princeton University in 1995, Wilson's centennial year. At these occasions, prominent critics, literary journalists, and historians aired a variety of points of view about his work and personality. Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, this book shows new intellectual voices interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times.

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"Edmund Wilson, who epitomized the man of letters for this century and who relished his role as the nation's leading literary curmudgeon and dictator, comes brilliantly to life in this wide-ranging collection of essays edited by his biographer, Lewis Dabney. Not only do we get acute explorations of Wilson's criticism but incisive pieces on his other writing and on aspects of his long disorderly life. Professor Dabney, his contributors, and the Princeton University Press are to be congratulated for this celebration of Wilson as he triumphantly passes his centennial and doggedly sets sail for another century."--George Core, Editor, The Sewanee Review

"Memories of the man, scholar, drinker, libertine, are mostly amused, affectionate and forbearing."--The New York Times Book Review

"Edmund Wilson ... comes brilliantly to life in this wide-ranging collection of essays.... Not only do we get acute explorations of Wilson's criticism but incisive pieces on his other writing."--George Core, editor, The Sewanee Review

Contenuti:

	Contributors
	Introduction	3
	Edmund Wilson: Three Phases	15
	The Religion of the Enlightenment	27
	Wilson's Romanticism	35
	Wilson's Modernism	39
	The Writer's Eye	53
	Edmund Wilson and Gentile Philo-Semitism	70
	A Reading of the Journals	91
	The Perspective of Biography: 1929, A Turning Point	109
	Remembering Edmund Wilson	135
	The Admirable Minotaur of Money Hill	154
	Revisiting the Critic on the Scrolls	169
	Wilson's Lenin	177
	The Independent Radical Observer	186
	Wilson and Soviet Russia	195
	Patriotic Gore and the Introduction	208
	Omissions in Patriotic Gore	221
	A Great Man's Limitations	233
	Wilson Divided	240
	Edmund Wilson in His Times	253
	Wilson and Our Non-Wilsonian Age	266
	Afterword	276
	Index	285

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691016720
• ISBN 13: 9780691016726
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 293
• Redattore: Dabney Lewis M.