Soviet Attitudes Toward American Writing

✍ Scribed by Deming Brown

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 348
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2372
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Treats publication and critical reception of U.S. writing, especially fiction, in Russia in the first four decades of the Soviet regime, analyzing it in terms of aesthetic and political theory.

Originally published in 1962.

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✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I : THE NINETEEN TWENTIES
CHAPTER II : THE NINETEEN THIRTIES
CHAPTER III: PROLETARIAN LITERATURE
CHAPTER IV : JOHN DOS PASSOS
CHAPTER V: OTHER OPINIONS OF THE NINETEEN THIRTIES
CHAPTER VI: FROM WORLD WAR II TO 1955
CHAPTER VII: FROM 1955 TO 1960
CHAPTER VIII: UPTON SINCLAIR
CHAPTER IX : JACK LONDON AND O. HENRY
CHAPTER X : SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THEODORE DREISER
CHAPTER XI: HOWARD FAST
CHAPTER XII: ERNEST HEMINGWAY
CHAPTER XIII: CONCLUSION
INDEX