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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Krutch, Joseph Wood, 1893-1970. Krutch omnibus. New York, Morrow, 1970 (OCoLC)652357756 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph Wood Krutch |
OCLC Number: | 97061 |
Description: | ix, 341 pages 25 cm |
Contents: | Part I: the modern temper. Introduction -- Genesis of a mood -- Tragic fallacy -- Conclusion, the modern temper -- Introductory comment, with excerpts from More Lives Than One, upon The Measure of Man -- Loss on confidence -- Grand strategy -- Minimal man -- Old-fashioned science of man -- function of discourse -- It may not be too late -- Not so blank slate (human nature and the human condition) -- Part II: life, art and peace. Introdcution, with excerpts from Experience and Art -- Communism and the old pagan (was Europe a success?) -- Cant, Candor, and the class war -- Part III. Miscellaena. Morals. No essays, please! -- Search for a rule of life -- Commencement address -- What is modernism? -- Honor and morality -- Challenge to an unknown writer -- Two cultures. Is our common man too common? -- Are the humanities worth saving? -- Should we bring literature to children? -- Psychoanalyzing Alice -- Infatuation with the primative -- Prosperity of a jest -- Uses of literature in an age of science -- World we live in. Why I am not going to the moon -- Invention is the mother of necessity -- Age of violence -- Men, apes, and termites -- Through happiness with slide rule and calipers -- If you don't ming my saying so... -- Part IV: on some men and some books. Introduction -- Highbrows are not always right -- "Passions of the head" -- "You say that I am mad" -- Genius and neuroticism -- Samuel Richardson -- Rasselas -- Thoreau signs off -- Birds and airplanes. |
Abstract:
Compilation of the distinguished critic and naturalist's essays on such diverse topics as morals, the technological age, the lives and work of prominent authors, and the relevance of the humanities.
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