| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 254 pages) |
| Contents |
Part 1 General and Personal -- The Berlin Uprising: Cold War Turning Point? 3 -- The United Snopes Information Service 17 -- Federal Censorship 33 -- Gott Mit Whom? 37 -- A Most Mysterious Disaster 47 -- On Taste 51 -- Down Low and Hard Up 57 -- Snobbery and the American Scene 61 -- Part 2 Individual Writers -- The Rational Shelley 67 -- Walt Whitman: Orientalist or Nationalist? 71 -- The Urban and the Urbane: Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow 85 -- An English Bohemian in Spain: Gerald Brenan 91 -- Lorca in Our Time 95 -- Philip Larkin: An American View 103 -- James Joyce and Hermann Broch: From Influence to Originality 115 -- Part 3 Literary Criticism and Theory -- Problems of "Poetic Prose" in English and French 127 -- Down with Translation 131 -- Toward a Comparative American Literary History 135 -- Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar 145 -- A Novel of Ideas 149 -- Santayana's Idea of the Tragic 153 -- The Last Puritan Once More 165 -- Santayana's Reading of Freud 171 -- Santayana and Ezra Pound 183 -- Santayana's The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory 199 -- Mnemosyne 205 -- Benedetto Croce's AEsthetic: An Introduction 211 -- Franco, Spain, and the Third Reich 217 -- Antonio Ordonez and Others 221 -- The Bullfight Gentrified 227 -- Coda: Another Music 235 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Santayana, George. swd |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Literature, Modern
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Literaturwissenschaft
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Literatur
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781412812122 |
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1412812127 |
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