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050	0	0	_aPS 228.E9 _bF5 1965
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100	1		_aFinkelstein, Sidney, _d1909-1974. _94214 _eauthor
245	1	0	_aExistentialism and alienation in American literature / _cby Sidney Finkelstein.
260			_aNew York, NY : _bInternational Publishers, _cc1967.
300			_a314 pages ; _c21 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-308) and index.
505	0		_aChapter one. introduction -- art and philosophy -- Chapter two. the Enlightenment -- doubts and concepts -- Chapter three. Capitalism viewed by Kierkegaard and Marx -- Chapter four. Dostoievsky -- realist and anti-realist -- Chapter five. Nietzsche -- the myth and the unconscious -- Chapter six. existentialism and German fascism -- Husserl, Heidegger and Jaspers -- Chapter seven. social responsibility of the existentialist artist -- Camus and Sartre -- Chapter eight. sociological and literary depiction of alienation -- Marx, Balzac and Eugene O'Neill -- Chapter nine. alienation as a literary style -- F. Scott Fitzgerald and T.S. Elliot -- Chapter ten. conflict between humanization and alienation -- William Faulkner -- Chapter eleven. alienation and rebellion to nowhere -- John Dos Passos and Henry Miller -- Chapter twelve. cold war, religious revival and family alienation -- William Styron, J.D. Salinger, and Edward Albee --
505		2	_gChapter thirteen. alienated expressions and existentialist answers -- _tA. acceptance of alienation : John Updike and James Purdy -- B. lost social convictions and existentialism : Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow -- C. existentialism and social demands : Norman Mailer and James Baldwin --
505	0		_tChapter fourteen. the moralist of human progress.
520			_a"After a discussion of the philosophical background (Kierkegaard to Heidegger) the author examines the existentialist thought of Camus and Sartre, as it applies particularly to the problem of social responsibility. With many illuminating comparisons in the realm of world literature, he then proceeds to trace the influence of alienation in American letters since World War I, and its relation to the existentialist answer. Among those discussed are O'Neill, Fitzgerald, Eliot, Faulkner, Dos Passos, Henry Miller, Styron, Salinger, Albee, Updike, Purdy, Bellow, Mailer and Baldwin. The first of its kind, the book provides a provocative and thoughtful criticism of contemporary American literature." -- from book jacket
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650		0	_aAmerican literature _y20th century _xHistory and criticism. _94671
650		0	_aAlienation (Social psychology) in literature. _94672
650		0	_aLiterature _xPsychology. _94673
650		0	_aSocial isolation in literature. _94674
650		0	_aExistentialism in literature. _94675
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