Fine Silver Thread - Essays on American Writing and Criticism

A new collection of essays on American writing and criticism about the difference between art and ideology, and how ideology has disfigured the work of some of our best writers. Tuttleton is a critic whose judgments can be trusted. James Seaton, Hudson Review.

About the author

James Tuttleton, who died in November 1998, was professor of English at New York University and author of Vital Signs (published by Ivan R. Dee) and of The Novel of Manners in America.

Summary

A new collection of essays on American writing and criticism-about the difference between art and ideology, and how ideology has disfigured the work of some of our best writers. "Tuttleton is a critic whose judgments can be trusted."-James Seaton, Hudson Review.

Product details

• Authors: James A. Tuttleton, James W Tuttleton, James W. Tuttleton
• Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.1998
• EAN: 9781566631815
• ISBN: 978-1-56663-181-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies