IMAGE AND IDEA
14 Essays on Literary Themes
By PHILIP RAHV
Paleface and Redskin
The Cult of Experience in American Writing
The Dark Lady of Salem
The Heiress of All the Ages
Attitudes toward Henry James
Tolstoy: the Green Twig and the Black Trunk
Dostoevsky in THE POSSESSED
The Death of Ivan Jlyich and Joseph K.
Notes on the Decline of Naturalism
Sketches in Criticism
I. Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown
2. Henry Miller
3. Dr. Williams in His Short Stories
4. Koestler and Homeless Radicalism
5. De Vo+o and KULTURBOLSCHEWISMUS
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the ,essays, in varying degree, carry Mr. Rahv's trade-mark:
fresh insight, cogent and persuasive argument, logical conclusion,
provocative implication."
THE ATLANTIC
"The way in which Mr. Ra'hv has tried to comprehend his own very
representative political and ethical evolution through a reassessment of
American and European writing has made " Image and Idea" one of the
most clarifying of recent books of criticism."
Robert Gorham Davis, N.
Y.
TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"The characteristic success of these essays is a sucCess of reclamation;
the appropriation toward humanist ends and by methodical means of the
irrationality, apocalyptism, and chaos of the modern mind."
Richard Chase, THE NATION
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