Research Catalog

Title

[Collection of periodicals containing articles and reviews by Alfred Kazin].

Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998.

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Details

Description

7 archival boxes; 77 envelopes.

Subjects

• Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 > Criticism and interpretation
• Salinger, J. D (Jerome David), 1919-2010 > Criticism and interpretation
• United States > History > 19th century
• Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972 > Criticism and interpretation
• Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation
• Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004 > Criticism and interpretation
• Mencken, H. L (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 > Criticism and interpretation
• American literature > 20th century
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783
• United States > History > 20th century
• Jews

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Source (note)

• Judith Dunford;

Contents

“Alfred Kazin on Edmund Wilson: A View from the Sixties,” The New Republic (October 15, 1977) -- “Alfred Kazin on Fiction,” The New Republic (December 6, 1975) -- “The American Experience in Art,” The Griffin (April 1962) -- “American Right, Left and Indifferent: Responses to the Holocaust,” Dimensions (1988) -- “American Writing Now,” The New Republic (October 18, 1980) -- “The Art City Our Fathers Built,” The American Scholar (Spring 1998) -- “At Ease in Zion,” Commentary (December 1961) -- “Beyond the Promised Land,” Saturday Review World (November 2, 1974) -- “Books Considered: Facts of Life by Maureen Howard,” The New Republic (September 9, 1978) -- “Books As a Better Kind of Life,” The New Republic (November 18, 1981) -- “The Book Revue,” The State of the Book World (1980) -- “Books/Zeal for the Hidden Detail,” The Atlantic (April 1983) -- “Brownstone Roosevelt,” Arts & Antiques (May 1985) -- “Carrying the World Abroad,” American Studies International (April 1988) -- “Cry, the Beloved Country,” Forbes (September 14, 1992) -- “Democracy According to Whitman,” Commentary (June 1976) -- “Democracy and Its Discontents: Reflections on Writers and America,” Thesis (Spring 1987) -- “A Different World,” The New Republic (September 20 & 27, 1993) -- “Ecce Homo,” The New Republic (October 5, 1992) -- “Every Man His Own Revolution,” Perspectives on the American Revolution (April-May 1976) -- “Every Man His Own Revolution,” The New Republic (July 3 and 10, 1976) -- “The Fascination of Henry Adams,” The New Republic (August 1, 1983) -- “From a Critic’s Notebook,” The Griffin (December 1961) -- “From a Critic’s Notebook,” The Griffin (March 1962) -- “‘The Giant Killer’: Drink and the American Writer,” Alcohol Health and Research World (Winter 1976/77) -- “Gibbs: Another Ancestor,” The New Republic (December 7, 1942) -- “Gorky and the Master Friends,” The Kenyon Review (Winter 1947) -- “H.L. Mencken and the Great American Boob,” Menckeniana (Fall 1986) -- “Habits of Home,” The New Republic (September 24, 1990) -- “Hemingway & Fitzgerald: The Cost of Being American,” American Heritage (April/May 1984) -- “Howells: A Late Portrait,” The Antioch Review (Summer 1941) -- “Huck in the Bronx,” The New Republic (March 20, 1989) -- “Important People,” American Journal (February 13, 1973) -- “Important People” (continued), American Journal (March 13, 1973) -- “In Every Voice, in Every Ban,” The New Republic (January 10, 1944) -- “J.D. Salinger: ‘Everybody’s Favorite’,” The Atlantic (August 1961) -- “Jews,” The Paris Review (no. 132) -- “Jews,” The New Yorker (March 7, 1994) -- “Joan Didion: Portrait of a Professional,” Harper’s (December 1971) -- “John Dos Passos: Inventer in Isolation,” Saturday Review (March 15, 1969) -- “Kafka e il Dolore del Secolo,” Il Ponte (October 1947) -- “The Lady and the Tiger,” The Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 1941) -- “The Language of Pundits,” The Cornhill (Summer 1961) -- “Letters from Paris,” Travel & Life (September 1989) -- “Literary Thought Versus Literary Theory: The Case of American Literature,” The Writer at Work (1972) -- “Living with the Holocaust,” Midstream (June/July 1970) -- “The Matter with Style,” The New Republic (December 16, 1989) -- “Mr. Bellow’s Planet,” The New Republic (November 6, 1976) -- “Neither Jew nor Greek,” The New Republic (November 1, 1943) -- “The New Republic: A Personal View,” The New Republic (November 6, 1989) -- “A New York Jew at Notre Dame,” Notre Dame Magazine (February 1980) -- “Norman Mailer and the CIA,” Dissent (Spring 1992) -- “On Modernism,” The New Republic (January 17, 1976) -- “Ours Is a Visual Period,” Double Take (Spring 1997) -- “Oy Gevalt!,” The New Republic (November 3, 1997) -- “Poem,” The New Republic (May 11, 1998) -- “Portrait of a Lady,” The New Republic (August 29, 1988) -- “Professors Are Too Sophisticated,” Saturday Review (May 22, 1971) -- “Reconsideration: An Ordinary Bloke,” The New Republic (October 21, 1978) -- “Remembering Irving Howe,” Dissent (Fall 1993) -- “Rewriting the Thirties,” Intellectual History Newsletter (1997) -- “Roman Summer,” The Atlantic (December 1975) -- “Sontag Is Not a Camera,” Esquire (February 1978) -- “Southwestward, the Great American Space,” American Heritage (April 1987) -- “Summing Up,” American Heritage (September 1998) -- “The Tastemaker,” The New Republic (June 20, 1994) -- “Three Pioneer Realists,” The Saturday Review of Literature (July 8, 1939) -- “Totem and Taboo in Terre Haute,” The New Republic (February 23, 1987) -- “Upright and Uptight,” The New Republic (August 12, 1991) -- “The Use of Experience,” The New Republic (August 29, 1955) -- “The Vanity of Human Wishes,” The Reporter (August 16, 1962) -- “The Vision Thing,” The New Republic (March 21, 1994) -- “Voices from the Midwest,” Dialogue (1984) -- “‘What Do We Do Now? What? What?’: A Visit to Israel,” The Atlantic (April 1974) -- “Whatever Happened to Criticism?,” Commentary (February 1970) -- “Whatever Happened to Criticism?,” Papers of the Midwest Modern Language Association (1972) -- “Writing about Oneself,” Commentary (April 1979) -- “Yankee Gnostics,” The New Republic (June 8, 1992).

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Kazin Articles

Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998. Contributor

Title

[Collection of periodicals containing articles and reviews by Alfred Kazin].

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

Local Note

Periodicals formerly owned by Alfred Kazin and acquired with his archive in 2002.

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Added Author

Kazin, Alfred, 1915-1998. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Kazin Articles