Images and ideas in American culture : the functions of criticism : essays in memory of Philip Rahv / Arthur Edelstein, editor. - Hanover, N.H. : Brandeis University Press : distributed by the University Press of New England, 1979. - x, 222 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Edelstein, A. Prologue--The literature and language of politics: Chomsky, N. Foreign policy and the intelligentsia. Whitfield, S.J. "Totalitarianism" in eclipse.--The politics of literature and language: Alter, R. Mimesis and the motive for fiction. Poirier, R. The difficulties of modernism and the modernism of difficulty. Brustein, R. The crack in the chimney, reflections on contemporary American playwriting.--Nemerov, H. The first country of places.--Philip Rahv, the critic and the man: Hindus, M. Philip Rahv. Lelchuk. A. Philip Rahv, the last years.

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Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.


Criticism--United States.


United States--Civilization--1945-

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810.9