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Worlds of Irving Howe - John Rodden - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Worlds of Irving Howe - John Rodden - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe''s work written by some of the most prominent intellectuals of the twentieth century, among them Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, C. Vann Woodward, Robert Coles, Daniel Bell, Malcolm Cowley, and Arthur Schlesinger. The critical estimates of Howe''s major books, collected here and framed by a major biographical introduction by John Rodden, constitute a sharply focused lens through which readers can re-evaluate the legacy of one of American''s leading intellectuals and thereby understand the main issues of twentieth-century Anglo-American cultural history. Contributors: Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, C. Vann Woodward, Newton Arvin, Charles Angoff, Edward Dahlberg, Isaac Rosenfeld, Richard Chase, H.D. Lasswell, Dennis Wrong, Michael Harrington, Christopher Lasch, Robert Coles, Daniel Bell, Malcolm Cowley, Arthur Schlesinger, Theodore Solotaroff, Clive James, Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, and William Phillips, among others.

DKK 843.00
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Minding the South - John Shelton Reed - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Minding the South - John Shelton Reed - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

For over three decades John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the region. Despite his disclaimer concerning the formal study of Southern history, Reed has read widely and in depth about the South. His primary focus is upon Southerners'' present-day culture, but he knows that one must approach the South historically in order to understand the place and its people. Why is the South so different from the rest of America? Rupert Vance, Reed''s predecessor in sociology at Chapel Hill, once observed that the existence of the South is a triumph of history over geography and economics. The South has resisted being assimilated by the larger United States and has kept a personality that is distinctly its own. That is why Reed celebrates the South. The chapters in this book cover everything from great thinkers about the South—Eugene D. Genovese, C. Vann Woodward, M. E. Bradford—to the uniqueness of a region that was once a hotbed of racism, but has recently attracted hundreds of thousands of black people transplanted from the North. There are also chapters about Southerners who have devoted their talents to politics, soft drinks, rock and roll, and jewelry design. Reed writes with wit and Southern charm, never afraid to speak his mind, even when it comes to taking his beloved South to task. While readers may not share all his opinions, most will agree that John Shelton Reed is one of the best "South watchers" there is.

DKK 380.00
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Magnolias without Moonlight - Sheldon Hackney - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Magnolias without Moonlight - Sheldon Hackney - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The eleven ex-Confederate states continue to be thoroughly American and at the same time an exception to the national mainstream. The region''s dual personality, how it came into being, and the purposes and interests it served is examined here, as well as its central role in the politics and "culture wars" flowing from the transformative Civil Rights Movement and the other social justice movements of the 1950s and 1960s. The essays on this theme include a penetrating explication of C. Vann Woodward''s masterpiece, Origins of the New South, 1877-1913 , which is explicitly informed by the scholarship of the fifty years since the book''s original publication. Hackney explores the political transformation of the South and the "identity politics" that continue to structure national political competition. The bi-racial nature of Southern society lies at the heart of Southern identity in all of its varieties. Understanding that identity is a purpose that underlies all of the chapters. Hackney uses quantitative analysis of hom-icide data to establish beyond doubt for the first time that the South has long been more violent, and that there is a cultural component of that violence that exists beyond the usual social predictors of higher homicide rates in the United States. He muses over the failure of the usual social predictors of votes for the Democratic Party to predict the party''s performance in the region. Timely, elegantly written, and wide in intellectual scope, Magnolias without Moonlight will be of interest to a broad readership of historians, cultural studies specialists, political scientists, and sociologists.

DKK 901.00
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The American Scholar Reader - Dwight Waldo - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The American Scholar Reader - Dwight Waldo - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

To celebrate The American Scholar''s thirtieth anniversary, Hiram Haydn and Betsy Saunders brought together fifty representative selections published throughout those years. These selections include the best essays that appeared throughout the life of one of the leading publications of the country. The editors give a picture of the changing intellectual climate and emphasis from the early 1930s to the late 1950s. The collection illustrates the unusually wide range and diversity of the regular subject matter of The American Scholar. This work is once again brought to public attention a half century later, and this edition includes a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz.Haydn and Saunders chose essays that were of supreme quality; those included were among the best of several hundred published. They focused on a diversity of subject matter as well as a selection representative of the different interests stressed in the magazine''s history. These pieces reflect the prevailing intellectual and cultural currents of fifty years earlier. The American Scholar Reader then, as now, focuses on themes of economics, religion, psychology, social and cultural matters, ecology, and the importance of conservation.Some of the major contributors and essays herein included are: ''The Germans: Unhappy Philosophers in Politics,'' Reinhold Niebuhr; ''The Challenge of Our Times,'' Harold J. Laski; ''The Problem of the Liberal Arts College,'' John Dewey; ''The Retort Circumstantial,'' Jacques Barzun; ''Freud, Religion, and Science,'' David Riesman; ''Three American Philosophers,'' George Santayana; ''Christian Gauss as a Teacher of Literature,'' Edmund Wilson; ''The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt,'' Richard Hofstadter; ''The Present Human Condition,'' Erich Fromm; ''Our Documentary Culture,'' Margaret Mead; and ''Equality America''s Deferred Commitment,'' C. Vann Woodward.

DKK 380.00
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