Bøker av Irving Howe

A World More Attractive is a collection of essays by Irving Howe, one of the foremost literary critics and socialist intellectuals of the 20th century. In these insightful and engaging pieces, Howe reflects on the relations between literature, politics, and culture, exploring topics such as realism, modernism, Marxism, and Jewish identity. With clarity, wit, and erudition, Howe demonstrates the relevance of literature to social and political change and offers a vision of a more humane world.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This book, first published in 1979, is a representative sample of some of the best articles that have appeared in DISSENT, the American democratic socialist quarterly. They provide a two-sided view of political and social action with the democratic society of the USA.

Fifty-two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers during the last two centuries.

Man of letters, political critic, public intellectual, Irving Howe was one of America's most exemplary and embattled writers. Since his death in 1993 at age 72, Howe's work and his personal example of commitment to high principle, both literary and political, have had a vigorous afterlife. This posthumous and capacious collection includes twenty-six essays that originally appeared in such publications as the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and the Nation. Taken together, they reveal the depth and breadth of Howe's enthusiasms and range over politics, literature, Judaism, and the tumults of American society. A Voice Still Heard is essential to the understanding of the passionate and skeptical spirit of this lucid writer. The book forms a bridge between the two parallel enterprises of culture and politics. It shows how politics justifies itself by culture, and how the latter prompts the former. Howe's voice is ever sharp, relentless, often scathingly funny, revealing Howe as that rarest of critics-a real reader and writer, one whose clarity of style is a result of his disciplined and candid mind.

What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? Howe lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche.

In this fourth edition of his celebrated critical study, Mr. Howe analyzes all of Faulkner's works, emphasizing the themes that run throughout the novels and stories. "Mr. Howe is a shrewd critic....He has a good many observations that should help readers in going through the novels."-Alfred Kazin.

Traces the story of Eastern Europe's Jews to America and offers a rich portrayal of the East European Jewish experience in New York. It is useful reading for those interested in understanding why these forebears to many American Jews made the decision to leave their homelands, and the challenges these new Jewish Americans faced.