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Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler
Mark Royden Winchell
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Description for Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler
Hardcover. This text is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Leslie Fiedler, the famous literary, cultural and political critic. Num Pages: 368 pages, 30 illustrations, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: BG; DSA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 794.
Too Good to Be True is a comprehensive account of Leslie Fiedler's life and work. Born in 1917, Fiedler has, in a sense, had four overlapping careers. He first came to prominence as one of the premier Jewish intellectuals of the postwar era - writing on literature, culture, and politics in such magazines as Partisan Review and Commentary. At approximately the same time, he helped lead the attack that myth criticism was mounting on the hegemony of the New Criticism. If he had stopped writing entirely at that point, Fiedler would still be remembered as an important cultural critic of ... Read more
Too Good to Be True is a comprehensive account of Leslie Fiedler's life and work. Born in 1917, Fiedler has, in a sense, had four overlapping careers. He first came to prominence as one of the premier Jewish intellectuals of the postwar era - writing on literature, culture, and politics in such magazines as Partisan Review and Commentary. At approximately the same time, he helped lead the attack that myth criticism was mounting on the hegemony of the New Criticism. If he had stopped writing entirely at that point, Fiedler would still be remembered as an important cultural critic of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Missouri
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Missouri, United States
ISBN
9780826213891
SKU
V9780826213891
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About Mark Royden Winchell
Mark Royden Winchell is Professor of English and Director of the Great Works of Western Civilization program at the University of South Carolina in Clemson. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Where No Flag Flies: Donald Davidson and the Southern Resistance (University of Missouri Press).
Reviews for Too Good to Be True: The Life and Work of Leslie Fiedler
Reading this book made me see again just how important Fiedler has been and how much he has contributed in his role of disturber of peace in the academy. It is a role he has always played - but always with the goal of bringing the joy of reading literature into the foreground and keeping it there. - JIM COX ... Read more