Howe, Irving.

The Critical Point, On Literature And Culture.

New York, Horizon Press, 1973. 24cm x 16cm. 232 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

A collection of the best essays by one of the pre-eminent critics in America/ “What’s the Trouble: Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both?”/ a series of illuminating studies – the role of the city in literature; major novelists from the nineteenth century to the present/ work of Zola, Dotoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Lukacs, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth/ poets, Ezra Pound, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Sylvia Plath/ essays on the literature of suicide/ George Steiner/ Gandhi and psychoanalysis/ sexual politics.

• Keywords: Catalogue Ten – International Literature · Catalogue Twelve – Philosophy · Gandhi · Literary Criticism · Literary Criticism – Rare · Pound Studies · Pound, Ezra · Saul Bellow
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0818011610
• Inventory Number: 29975AB

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