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Informationen zum Autor John McCormick Klappentext Features a collection of essays on a variety of topics! followed by work on individual writers! and writings on criticism and theory. This book includes a section on Santayana! and Spain and toreo (bullfighting). Zusammenfassung As the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part 1: General and Personal The Berlin Uprising: Cold War Turning Point? The United Snopes Information Service Federal Censorship Gott Mit Whom? A Most Mysterious Disaster On Taste Down Low and Hard Up Snobbery and the American Scene Part 2: Individual Writers The Rational Shelley Walt Whitman: Orientalist or Nationalist? The Urban and the Urbane: Iris Murdoch and Saul Bellow An English Bohemian in Spain: Gerald Brenan Lorca in Our Time Philip Larkin: An American View James Joyce and Hermann Broch: From Infl uence to Originality Part 3: Literary Criticism and Theory Problems of "Poetic Prose" in English and French Down with Translation Toward a Comparative American Literary History Problems and Occasions for the American Scholar A Novel of Ideas Santayana's Idea of the Tragic The Last Puritan Once More Santayana's Reading of Freud Santayana and Ezra Pound Santayana's The Sense of Beauty : Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Mnemosyne Benedetto Croce's aesthetic : An Introduction Franco, Spain, and the Third Reich Antonio Ordonez and Others The Bullfight Gentrified Coda Another Music Name Index Title Index
