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The Golden Age of the American Essay

- 1945-1976
Af: Phillip Lopate Engelsk Paperback

The Golden Age of the American Essay

- 1945-1976
Af: Phillip Lopate Engelsk Paperback
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A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate

The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America—racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them—proved fruitful topics for America''s best minds.

In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita, Martin Luther King, Jr.''s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and Richard Hofstadter''s "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
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A one-of-a-kind anthology of American essays on a wide range of subjects by a dazzling array of mid-century writers at the top of their form—from Normal Mailer to James Baldwin to Joan Didion—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate

The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the rise of public intellectuals, and breakthroughs in the arts inspired a flowering of literary culture. At the same time, the many problems that confronted mid-century America—racism, sexism, nuclear threat, war, poverty, and environmental degradation among them—proved fruitful topics for America''s best minds.

In The Golden Age of the American Essay, Phillip Lopate assembles a dazzling array of famous writers, critics, sociologists, theologians, historians, activists, theorists, humorists, poets, and novelists. Here are writers like James Agee, E. B. White, A. J. Liebling, Randall Jarrell, and Mary McCarthy, pivoting from the comic indignities of daily life to world peace, consumerism, and restaurants in Paris. Here is Norman Mailer on Jackie Kennedy, Vladimir Nabokov on Lolita, Martin Luther King, Jr.''s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," and Richard Hofstadter''s "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." Here are Gore Vidal, Rachel Carson, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, John Updike, Joan Didion, and many more, in a treasury of brilliant writing that has stood the test of time.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 400
ISBN-13: 9780525567332
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 052556733X
Udg. Dato: 6 apr 2021
Længde: 28mm
Bredde: 153mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: Random House USA Inc
Oplagsdato: 6 apr 2021
Forfatter(e): Phillip Lopate
Forfatter(e) Phillip Lopate


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ISBN-13 9780525567332


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 400


Udgave


Længde 28mm


Bredde 153mm


Højde 203mm


Udg. Dato 6 apr 2021


Oplagsdato 6 apr 2021


Forlag Random House USA Inc

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