Critics Notebook - Hardcover

Howe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151199493 ISBN 13: 9780151199495

Publisher: Thomson Learning, 1995

Synopsis

Irving Howe was a major intellectual presence: winner of the National Book Award for his best-selling history, World of Our Fathers; editor of Dissent, an influential left-wing magazine of opinion; professor of English at Brandeis University, Stanford University, and the City University of New York. When he died in 1993, he left behind a collection of essays on fiction which he had been working on in the last of his life. Assembled by his son, Nicholas Howe, who also provides an introduction, these accessible, idiosyncratic essays, - which Irving Howe called his shtiklach (Yiddish for "little pieces" or "morsels") - explore such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, genre. Many address both literature and politics; but all originate from a passion, a moral striving, and an abiding faith in the common reader.

About this title

Synopsis:

A collection of essays on fiction explore the concepts of character, style, tone, and genre, commenting on such literary giants as, Fielding, Sterne, Dickens, George Eliot, Tolstoy, and Kipling.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomson Learning
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0151199493
• ISBN 13: 9780151199495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 373