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Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (541 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson Regrets ... written by Edmund Wilson and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis M. Dabney
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466810440
Total Pages : 967 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Lewis M. Dabney and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Jazz Age through the McCarthy era, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) stood at the center of the American cultural scene. In his own youth a crucial champion of the young Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wilson went on to write three classics of literary and intellectual history (Axel's Castle, To the Finland Station, and Patriotic Gore), searching reportage, and criticism that has outlasted many of its subjects. Wilson documented his unruly private life--a formative love affair with Edna St. Vincent Millay, a tempestuous marriage to Mary McCarthy, and volatile friendships with Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov, among others--in openly erotic fiction and journals, but Lewis Dabney is the first writer to integrate the life and work. Dabney traces the critic's intellectual development, from son of small-town New Jersey gentry to America's last great renaissance man, a deep commentator on everything from the Russian classics to Native American rituals to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Along the way, Dabney shows why Wilson was and has remained--in his cosmopolitanism and trenchant nonconformity--a model for young writers and intellectuals, as well as the favorite critic of the general reader. Edmund Wilson will be recognized as the lasting biography of this brilliant man whose life reflected so much of the cultural, social, and human experience of a turbulent century.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374600260
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Classics and Commercials written by Edmund Wilson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George H. Douglas
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187745
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson's America written by George H. Douglas and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Richard Hauer Costa
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815601630
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Richard Hauer Costa and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the eminent American literary critic Edmund Wilson, Upstate New York was home. Richard Hauer Costa's biography of Wilson's final years, from 1962 to 1972, in Talcottville, NY, combines the literary, the political, and the domestic in an engaging portrait of Wilson as "squierarchical, Dickensian, benevolent." Costa shows us a very personal, accessible man as he tells us about Wilson's opinions, literary and otherwise, his likes and dislikes, his almost spiritual link to Talcottville, his failing health in his final years, his habits (moviegoing) and idiosyncracies (sneakers). What emerges is a profile of Wilson not at all like the stern figure of academic biography. Also included are interviews Costa conducted after Wilson's death with noted Upstate novelist Walter D. Edmonds, Canadian writer Morley Callaghan, and Wilson's Upstate friend, Mary Pcolar.
Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Cooper Square Press
ISBN 13 : 1461664519
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biography of prolific critic, essayist, historian, and novelist Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) posits, quite successfully, that the subject lived a life as romantic and chaotic as his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown and the tragic death of his second wife (he was married four times, among them, Mary McCarthy); had affairs with numerous beautiful women, including Edna St. Vincent Millay; and was friend to literary giants such as John Dos Passos, Vladimir Nabakov, and W.H. Auden.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Works by Edmund Wilson written by Edmund Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains periodical issues in which the author's works appeared.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Ohio University Center for International Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters written by Edmund Wilson and published by Ohio University Center for International Studies. This book was released on 2001 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Arranged by correspondent and moving through the phases of his career, Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters constitutes an exemplary autobiography cum cultural history. The writing itself is vintage Wilson - a blending of classical and conversational styles that stands as part of the modern American canon and is filled with the emotions and tastes of a master."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Alex Beam
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1101870230
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Feud written by Alex Beam and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania. In 1940, Edmund Wilson was the undisputed big dog of American letters. Vladimir Nabokov was a near-penniless Russian exile seeking asylum in the States. Wilson became a mentor to Nabokov, introducing him to every editor of note, assigning him book reviews for The New Republic, engineering a Guggenheim Fellowship. Their intimate friendship blossomed over a shared interest in all things Russian, ruffled a bit by political disagreements. But then came the worldwide best-selling novel Lolita, and the tables were turned. Suddenly Nabokov was the big (and very rich) dog. The feud finally erupted in full when Nabokov published his hugely footnoted and virtually unreadable literal translation of Pushkin’s famously untranslatable verse novel, Eugene Onegin. Wilson attacked his friend’s translation with hammer and tongs in The New York Review of Books. Nabokov counterattacked. Back and forth the increasingly aggressive letters flew, until the narcissism of small differences reduced their friendship to ashes. Alex Beam has fashioned this clash of literary titans into a delightful and irresistible book—a comic contretemps of a very high order and a poignant demonstration of the fragility of even the deepest of friendships. (With black-and-white illustrations throughout)
Author : David Castronovo
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson Revisited written by David Castronovo and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the jazz age to the Nixon years, Edmund Wilson was an intrepid critic, historian, journalist, and creative writer who communicated in the voice of the public intellectual with a general audience and with international peers including Isaiah Berlin and Vladimir Nabokov. This new, revised edition of a 1985 New York Times Notable Book is about Wilson's passions: his commitment to the writer's craft, his contempt for power politics in his time and in history, his appetite for ancient and modern languages and literatures, and his many loves and eccentricities. Moving from his 1920s days as a cultural journalist to his 1930s period as a reporter on Depression America to his later years of relentless research and writings on the Civil War, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the panorama of his long life in literature, Edmund Wilson Revisited analyzes the books and opinions that have made Wilson a landmark figure. Chapters devoted to literary ideas, reporting, revolutionary politics, and personal philosophy reveal grand patterns of a writer's career as they follow his life across the century. Readers will discover Wilson's renaissance outreach as he explored Iroquois Indian customs, Hebrew texts, Marx and Engels, and the work of famous friends such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and many other writers whom he brought into focus and championed.
Author : Lewis M. Dabney
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691016719
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (167 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Lewis M. Dabney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Wilson, who helped shape American literary culture from the early 1920s through the mid '60s, is still a presence a century after his birth. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums in Wilson's centenary year, 1995, at the Mercantile Library in New York and at Princeton University. Assembled and edited by Lewis Dabney, the book shows the intellectual voices of a younger generation interacting with veterans who knew Wilson and his times.
Author : Warner Berthoff
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909806
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by Warner Berthoff and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Wilson - American Writers 67 was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Author : Edmund Wilson
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Edmund Wilson Reader written by Edmund Wilson and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1997-08-21 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gifted novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) served on the staffs of "Vanity Fair, The New Republic" and "The New Yorker", but is best known for the grace and insight of his literary criticism. Here in one volume is a representative selection from Wilson's diverse oeuvre that offers readers the opportunity to partake of an incomparable intellectual feast.
Author : David Castronovo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517128657
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (286 download)
Download or read book Edmund Wilson written by David Castronovo and published by . This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300101652
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Vixi written by Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the US Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly 40 years, and become adviser to President Reagan on Soviet and Eastern European affairs. Here, he remembers the events of his own remarkable life as well as the unfolding of some of the 20th century's most extraordinary political events. the conflicts inside the Reagan administration over American policies toward the USSR, Pipes offers observations as well as portraits of such cultural and political figures as Isaiah Berlin, Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig. Perhaps most interesting of all, Pipes depicts his evolution as a historian and his understanding of how history is witnessed and how it is recorded.
Author : Justin D'Arms
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199256403
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Rational Sentimentalism written by Justin D'Arms and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rational Sentimentalism develops a novel theory of the sentimental values. These values, which include the funny, the disgusting, and the shameful, are profoundly important because they set standards for emotional responses that are part of our shared human nature. Yet moral philosophers have neglected them relative to their prominent role in human mental life. The theory is sentimentalist because it holds that these values are emotion-dependent-contrary to some prominent accounts of the funny and the disgusting. Its rational aspect arises from its insistence that the shameful (for example) is not whatever elicits shame but what makes shame fitting. Shameful traits provide reasons to be ashamed that do not depend on whether one is disposed to be ashamed of them. Furthermore, these reasons to be ashamed transmit to reasons to act as shame dictates: to conceal. Sentimentalism requires a compatible theory of emotion and emotional fittingness. This book explicates a motivational theory of emotion that explains the peculiarities of emotional motivation as other theories cannot. It argues that a class of emotions are psychological kinds with a similar goal across cultures despite differences in their elicitors. It then develops an account of fittingness that helps to differentiate reasons of fit, which bear on the sentimental values, from other considerations for or against having an emotion. Significant and controversial conclusions emerge from this theory of rational sentimentalism. Sentimental values conflict with one another, and with morality, but nevertheless provide practical reasons that apply to humans-if not to all rational agents.
Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476772088
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book And Yet... written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seminal, uncollected essays—lauded as “dazzling” (The New York Times Book Review)—by the late Christopher Hitchens, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller God Is Not Great, showcase the notorious contrarian’s genius for rhetoric and his sharp rebukes to tyrants and the ill-informed everywhere. For more than forty years, Christopher Hitchens delivered essays to numerous publications on both sides of the Atlantic that were astonishingly wide-ranging and provocative. His death in December 2011 from esophageal cancer prematurely silenced a voice that was among the most admired of contemporary voices—writers, readers, pundits and critics the world over mourned his loss. At the time of his death, Hitchens left nearly 250,000 words of essays not yet published in book form. “Another great book of essays from a writer who we wish were still alive to produce more copy” (National Review), And Yet… ranges from the literary to the political and is a banquet of entertaining and instructive delights, including essays on Orwell, Lermontov, Chesterton, Fleming, Naipaul, Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, and Dickens, among others, as well as his laugh-out-loud self-mocking “makeover.” The range and quality of Hitchens’s essays transcend the particular occasions for which they were originally written, yielding “a bounty of famous scalps, thunder-blasted targets, and a few love letters from the notorious provocateur-in-chief’s erudite and scathing assessments of American culture” (Vanity Fair). Often prescient, always pugnacious, formidably learned, Hitchens was a polemicist for the ages. With this posthumous volume, he remains, “America’s foremost rhetorical pugilist” (The Village Voice).
