| Description |
xxii, 284 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
[Literature, culture and tradition] -- Western tradition and world concern -- The meaning of abstraction in literature -- Literary method and author-attitude -- Some problems of interpretation : silence, and speech as action -- On a poem of Catullus -- Wordsworth's poems -- Reflections on literature as a minor art -- [Dramatic art and theatre] -- The drama of awareness -- Notes on a remark of Seami -- Occasional poetry -- The chance for popular culture -- The shape of the screen and the darkness of the theatre -- Censorship and pornography on the stage -- Obsessed by theatre -- New theatre and the unions -- A new deal for the arts -- Art of the theatre -- [Modern literature] -- Advance-guard writing in America : 1900-1950 -- Good interim writing : 1954 -- Underground writing : 1960 -- 'The crime of our century' -- Kerouac's On the road -- The sweet style of Ernest Hemingway -- Preface to Kafka's Metamorphosis -- The real dream -- Between the flash and the thunderstroke -- The abundance -- [Self criticism] -- A decade of writing projects -- Preface to the grand piano -- Preface to a collection of stories never published -- Preface to the break-up of our camp -- Preface to The fire (i.e. Parents' day) -- Preface to our visit to Niagara -- An interview on the Empire city -- An apology for literature |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Literature -- Collections.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Literature.
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| Author |
Stoehr, Taylor, 1931-2013.
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| LC no. |
77071942 |
| ISBN |
0914156195 |
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