Essays: Personal & Impersonal

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ISBN-10:

0876857217

ISBN-13:

9780876857212

Author(s): Hindus, Milton
Edition: First Edition
Released: Dec 01, 1987
Format: Paperback, 181 pages
Related ISBN: 9780876857229

Description:

In 1988, at the age of 72, Milton Hindus, Brandeis professor and biographer and critic of Proust, Céline, Whitman, and Reznikoff, collected his miscellaneous essays. Some of them are personal (memoir and autobiography), others impersonal (criticism). The emphasis, Hindus writes, is on criticism "and the autobiographical revelations are present for whatever light they may shed upon the choice of subjects and the attitudes expressed in the criticism. My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all the author's work, then indeed he has written in vain."



Contents:

Pieces Out of A Man's Life:

1. The Tombstone, a portrait of the author's father

2. Portrait of an Uncle, on the Russian scholar Maurice Hindus

3. Politics, on the "Romance" of American Communism



Literary History and Criticism:

4. Walt Whitman's Critical Reception: From 1855 to the Present

5. Charles Reznikoff's first novel, By the Waters of Manhattan

6. Whittaker Chambers's Witness

7. Three Essays on Irving Babbitt:

- The Achievement of Irving Babbitt

- Babbitt's Masters of Modern French Criticism

- Babbitt's Version of the Buddha's Dhammapada

8. Socrates vs. Thoreau on Civil Disobedience

9. Patterns of Proustian Love

10. On Céline Once More

11. Reminiscences of Robert Frost

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