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Bearing the Bad News : Contemporary American Literature and Culture
author
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Pinsker, Sanford.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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087745292X
print isbn13
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9780877452928
ebook isbn13
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9781587291906
language
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English
subject
American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, United States--Civilization--1970- , Social problems in literature.
publication date
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1990
lcc
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PS225.P56 1990eb
ddc
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810.9/005
subject
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American literature--20th century--History and criticism, Literature and society--United States--History--20th century, United States--Civilization--1970- , Social problems in literature.
Page iii
Bearing the Bad News
Contemporary American Literature and Culture
By Sanford Pinsker
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1990 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1990
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pinsker, Sanford. Bearing the bad news: contemporary American literature and culture/by Sanford Pinsker.1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 0-87745-292-X (alk. paper) 1. American literature20th centuryHistory and criticism. 2. Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. United StatesCivilization1970- 4. Social problems in literature. I. Title. PS225.P56 1990 90-35570 810.9'005dc20 CIP
Page v
for Stan Lindberg, who prodded me to write, and then to rewrite
Page vii
CONTENT
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xi
Literary Culture, The Way it Was
Philip Rahv's "Paleface and Redskin"Fifty Years Later
3
The Catcher in the Rye and All: Is the Age of Formative Books Over?
18
Versions of Comic Relief
Comedy and Cultural Timing: The Lessons of Robert Benchley and Woody Allen
37
Lenny Bruce: Shpritzing the Goyim/Shocking the Jews
55
Some Faces of Cultural Politics
Bashing the Liberals: How the Neoconservatives Make Their Point
75
Modernist Culture, the Cunning of History, and Paul de Man
90
Lost Causes/Marginal Hopes: The Collected Elegies of Irving Howe
103
Getting Through the Eighties
Gestures of Indefinite Revolt: College Life through Fictional Prisms
121
Deconstruction as Apology: The Counterfictions of Philip Roth
137
Saul Bellow and the Special Comedy of Urban Life
153
Revisionist Thought, Academic Power, and the Aging American Intellectual
168
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The following essays have appeared in these publications in a slightly different form: "Philip Rahv's 'Paleface and Redskin'Fifty Years Later," "The Catcher in the Rye and All: Is the Age of Formative Books Over?" "Comedy and Cultural Timing: The Lessons of Robert Benchley and Woody Allen" in the Georgia Review; ''Lenny Bruce: Shpritzing the Goyim/Shocking the Jews'' in Sarah Blacher Cohen, ed., Jewish Wry (1986); "Bashing the Liberals: How the Neoconservatives Make Their Point," "Modernist Culture, the Cunning of History, and Paul de Man," and "Lost Causes/ Marginal Hopes: The Collected Elegies of Irving Howe" in Virginia Quarterly Review; "Gestures of Indefinite Revolt: College Life through Fictional Prisms" in the Colorado Review; "Saul Bellow and the Special Comedy of Urban Life" in Ontario Review; and "Revisionist Thought, Academic Power, and the Aging American Intellectual" in the Gettysburg Review.
Although this collection focuses on the varieties of bad news that permeate our culture, such essays generally are not written unless one is lucky enough to teach at a place that encourages, and supports, such writing, and where colleagues and students present countless opportunities to test out one's ideas and, more important perhaps, to have those ideas taken seriously. Lest there be any confusion, I am the "one" I have just written about, and an acknowledgments page strikes me as the proper place to announce this "good news."
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PREFACE
To impose an arrangement onto a group of disparate essays is a bit like dragging Flem Snopes, William Faulkner's consummate wheeler-dealer, into court. You can subpoena his testimonyyou can even make him act respectablebut as Mrs. Tull discovers, you're not likely to get much real satisfaction. It's much the same thing with journal articles that seek a more permanent place in the library stacks. One wants to believe that they belong between hard covers (indeed, that is the point introductions generally argue), but one also has the sinking feeling that this is precisely the sort of stunt Flem would pull if he were a professor.
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