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xxxvii, 349 pages ; 21 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Critical essays and reviews by H.L. Mencken taken from the Smart Set magazine. |
| Contents |
American culture. Diagnosis of our cultural malaise -- Our literary centers -- Critics and criticism. William Lyon Phelps and others -- The professor doctors -- Paul Elmer More -- Private reflections -- Professor Pattee and Professor Sherman -- The art of fiction. The novelist as Messiah -- A definition -- O. Henry -- The raw material of fiction -- Point of view -- The drama and some dramatists. On playgoers -- and on Hauptmann, Synge, and Shaw -- Getting rid of the actor -- Chesterton's picture of Shaw -- Shaw as platitudinarian -- Strindberg -- a final estimate -- The greatest stylist of modern times -- Poetry. Lizette Woodworth Reese -- Ezra Pound -- The troubadours a-twitter -- Holy writ -- Music. Hunker in Motley -- An apostle of rhythm -- A first-rate music critic -- Autobiographies. Hall Caine and John D. Rockefeller -- George Moore -- Henry Ford -- In the altogether -- Politics and politicians. The style of Woodrow -- Vax popular -- Psychology. The taste for romance -- The new thought, dreams, and Christian science -- Zelig Dodson -- Have lock Ellis -- Osculation anatomized -- The advent of psychoanalysis -- The anatomracy -- The critic as demolition expert. The way to happiness -- To drink or not to drink -- A novel thus begins -- The story of a resourceful wife -- A non-cure for the world's ills -- A faded charmer -- Earnest messages -- Brief dismissals -- Mush for the multitude -- Lachrymose love -- Literati. Mark twain -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- James Gibbons HuHunker- Oscar Wilde -- H.G. Wells -- Joseph Conrad -- Theodore Dreiser -- Anatole France- Willa Cather -- James Branch Cabell -- Sherwood Anderson -- Sinclair Lewis -- F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Miscellany. A book for the gourmet -- The nature of vice -- Novels to reread -- A review of reviewers -- An autobiographical note -- The incomparable Billy -- The Irish renaissance -- Taking stock -- The negro as author -- Scherzo for the bassoon -- Epilogue. Fifteen years. |
| Subject |
Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956.
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Literature -- History and criticism.
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Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956. (OCoLC)fst00052364
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Nolte, William H. (William Henry), 1928-1999, editor.
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| Added Title |
Smart set criticism |
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Smart set (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
089526790X |
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9780895267900 |
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