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A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelson’s view, writes in response to an idea of the good life that is inseparable from the life the writer lives.  Fusing biography and criticism and based on extensive new research, Moral Agents presents challenging new portraits of eight writers—novelists, critics, and poets—who transformed American literature in the turbulent twentieth century. Eight sharply distinctive individuals—inspired, troubled, hugely ambitious—who reimagined what it means to be a writer. There’s Saul Bellow, a novelist determined to rule as a patriarch, who, having been neglected by his father, in turn neglected his son in favor of young writers who presented themselves as his literary heirs. Norman Mailer’s extraordinary ambition, suppressed insecurity, and renegade metaphysics muddled the novels through which he hoped to change the world, yet these same qualities endowed him with an uncanny sensitivity and deep sympathy to the pathologies of American life that make him an unequaled political reporter. William Maxwell wrote sad tales of small-town life and surrounded himself with a coterie of worshipful admirers. As a powerful editor at The New Yorker, he exercised an enormous and constraining influence on American fiction that is still felt today. Preeminent among the critics is Lionel Trilling, whose Liberal Imagination made him a celebrity sage of the anxiously tranquilized 1950s, even as his calculated image of Olympian reserve masked a deeply conflicted life and contributed to his ultimately despairing worldview. Dwight Macdonald, by contrast, was a haute-WASP anarchist and aesthete driven by an exuberant moral commitment, in a time of cautious mediocrity, to doing the right thing. Alfred Kazin, from a poor Jewish émigré background, remained an outsider at the center of literary New York, driven both to escape from and do justice to the deepest meanings of his Jewish heritage. Perhaps most intriguing are the two poets, W.H. Auden and Frank O’Hara. Early in his career, Auden was tempted to don the mantle of the poet as prophet, but after his move from England to America he lived and wrote in a spirit of modesty and charity born out of a deeply idiosyncratic understanding of Christianity. O’Hara, tireless partygoer and pioneering curator at MoMA, wrote much of his poetry for private occasions. Its lasting power has proven to be something different from its avant-garde reputation: personal warmth, individuality, rootedness in ancient traditions, and openness to the world. Native American Documentary Films - Native American ... A compilation of Native American Documentary Films in the MSU Library American Civil War - Wikipedia American Civil War; Clockwise from top: Battle of Gettysburg Union Captain John Tidball's artillery Confederate prisoners ironclad USS Atlanta ruins of Richmond ... Quakers and the Underground Railroad: Myths and Realities Quakers and the Underground Railroad: Myths and Realities By Christopher Densmore . Curator Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College . The Struggle for the ... Moral Polarization and Many Pussyhats Crooked Timber An alternative moral psychological account propounded by Kurt Grey I believe is that all morality is based on care/harm and that liberals and conservatives are ... Edward Mendelson The New York Review of Books Edward Mendelson is Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia. His latest book is Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers. American Communism and Anticommunism : - JOHN EARL Table of Contents-Chapter Titles Only- Introduction . Chapter 1 History of the Communist Party of the USA . Chapter 2 Nature and ... Utilitarianism - Wikipedia Utilitarianism is an ethical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. "Utility" is defined in various ways usually in terms of the ... Essay Writing Service - EssayErudite.com Custom Writing ... We provide excellent essay writing service 24/7. Enjoy proficient essay writing and custom writing services provided by professional academic writers. Primary Sources - Native American Studies Research Guide ... Central Michigan University Native American Material in the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections: An important but often overlooked Native American resource. Literary Terms and Definitions P - Carson-Newman College This list is meant to assist not intimidate. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover ...
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