Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Literary Series: Irving Howe, critic, professor of English, Hunter College, on "Anarchy and Authority in American Literature...
...brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky was out-foxed and out-maneuvered by Joseph Stalin in the leadership struggle which followed Lenin's death in 1924. By 1929, after five years of setbacks and humiliation, he was banished forever from Russia...
...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. A distinguished and versatile critic gathers shards of youthful experience into a memoir that says farewell to the innocence-his own and the country's-that was shattered by World War I. The same experiences help his rather stilted early stories, GALAHAD and I THOUGHT OF DAISY, now reissued, to hold up as searching documentaries...
...Mahlerites believe that no other composer speaks to and of our generation better than that short, emotional Austrian Jew who died way back in 1911. Mahler has become part of our way of life. His musical expression was indeed "existentialist," as suggested by Critic Diether. There is also the comment of a friend upon hearing the recording of Mahler's Tenth: "This has been a psychedelic experience." Gustav may even turn out to be a "cure...
...visible rules of literary composition. The function of writing itself-rather than message, story or character-becomes the novelist's purpose. The formlessness of structural fiction stems from a reliance on the creative inspiration of the unconscious-the hidden intellectual code. At an even more arcane level, literary critics are using structuralism to redefine-and enhance-the critical role. In its name they have demanded equal billing with the works they judge. "It is inconceivable," says Roland Barthes, one of the movement's chief spokesmen, "that the creative laws governing the writer should not also be valid...