{"product_id":"pieces-of-resistance-hardback-9780521340366","title":"Pieces of Resistance (Hardback) 9780521340366","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePieces of Resistance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985 are a deliberate response to the current, increasingly specialized forms of criticism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEugene Goodheart (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521340366, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 25 December 1987\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePieces of Resistance is a 1988 collection of Eugene Goodheart's essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985. The book responds to the political, cultural, and literary changes expressed during this period by novelists, critics, and journalists. Goodheart's book is divided into three parts. The first section discusses critics Trilling, Rahv, Leslie Fiedler, Geoffrey Hartman, David Bleich, and Susan Sontag - to name a few. The second part devotes itself to contemporary culture and includes essays on journals such as The New York Review of Books, Commentary, and The Evergreen Review, which in the 1960s and early 1970s provided a well-lit playground for various political, cultural, and literary themes. Finally, Goodheart examines the work of many modern writers with essays on Isaac Bashevis Singer, Daniel Fuchs, Ralph Ellison, Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, Bernard Malamud, William Styron, Donald Barthelme, Raymond Carver, and Saul Bellow. Goodheart does not pretend to impersonal objectivity; his commitment to evaluative criticism is a deliberate response to increasingly specialized forms of criticism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Autobiographical\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Critics and Criticism: 1. William Chace's Lionel Trilling: Criticism and Politics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Philip Rahv and Image and Idea\u003cbr\u003e 3. Joseph Frank's Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt 1821–1849\u003cbr\u003e 4. Leslie Fiedler and the mythic life\u003cbr\u003e 5. The 'radicalism' of Susan Sontag\u003cbr\u003e 6. Paul Goodman's neolithic conservatism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Geoffrey Hartman's Criticism in the Wilderness: the Study of Literature Today\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Contemporary Culture in Conflict: 8. The New York Review: a close look\u003cbr\u003e 9. The new Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e 10. Eros, politics, and pornography: a decade with Evergreen Review\u003cbr\u003e 11. The deradicalized intellectuals\u003cbr\u003e 12. The New York Review loves an Englishman\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Writing in America and Elsewhere: 13. The New Country: Stories from the Yiddish About Life in America\u003cbr\u003e 14. Three Novels, by Daniel Fuchs\u003cbr\u003e 15. The demonic charm of Bashevis Singer\u003cbr\u003e 16. The thirties revisited: Meyer Liben's Justice Hunger and Nine Stories\u003cbr\u003e 17. Bernard Malamud's A New Life\u003cbr\u003e 18. Ralph Ellison's Shadow and Act\u003cbr\u003e 19. William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner\u003cbr\u003e 20. Donald Barthelme's The Dead Father\u003cbr\u003e 21. Raymond Carver's Cathedral\u003cbr\u003e 22. Saul Bellow's Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e 23. The claustral world of Nadine Gordimer\u003cbr\u003e 24. V. S. Naipaul: virtuoso of the negative.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007104241944,"sku":"9780521340366","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521340366i_a80420d1-d700-4b05-834b-371efc57fed4.jpg?v=1691375458","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/pieces-of-resistance-hardback-9780521340366","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}