Irving Howe: A Socialist Life

Dissent ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 126-137
Author(s):  
Mitchell Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Irving Howe

The Radical Papers. Irving Howe

Ethics ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-320
Author(s):  
Stuart Gerry Brown
Keyword(s):  
Irving Howe

Jewish Wheaties

Philip Roth ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 242-266
Author(s):  
Ira Nadel
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Norman Mailer ◽  
Politics And Literature ◽  
American Novel ◽  
Cynthia Ozick ◽  
Irving Howe ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
Young Writer ◽  
General Effort

Roth travels with Barbara Sproul to Asia, while maintaining his opposition to the Vietnam War; his writing turns to satire in a general effort to undermine seriousness in politics and literature Baseball, long a love of Roth’s, emerges in his lengthy burlesque novel, The Great American Novel followed by his semi-autobiographical My Life as a Man (1974), a rebuke to his first wife, Maggie. In the midst of his writing, a bitter legal encounter with Norman Mailer involving the young writer Alan Lelchuk occurs, at the same time he develops a friendship with the important Jewish writer Cynthia Ozick, who admired Roth’s rewrite of Kafka, The Breast. But he also experiences sustained criticism from Irving Howe which he never forgot. Roth unexpectedly changes publishers leaving Random House for Holt with a new editor and soon-to-be friend, Aaron Asher.

Howe, Irving (1920–1993)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saul Noam Zaritt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
Yiddish Literature ◽  
Democratic Socialism ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Cultural Innovation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Irving Howe ◽  
Post War

Irving Howe was an American literary and social critic. Howe was a central figure in the circles of American democratic socialism as well as a prominent voice in post-war American literary criticism. Though he addressed a great number of literary topics and periods in his writing, Howe wrote important reflections on international literary modernism—in what Howe perceived as its last stages. Howe helped facilitate the rise of modernism in the cultural mainstream during the post-war period while remaining critical of the ways in which contemporary ideologies could appropriate the strategies of the literary avant-garde for exploitative and destructive purposes. Howe was particularly active in promoting modern Yiddish literature, initiating the translation and circulation of Yiddish writers who had previously been unknown to English-speaking audiences. Seeking to conserve a disappearing culture, Howe viewed Yiddish modernism as a compelling expression of the tension in modernity between tradition and cultural innovation.

Fighting at Cross-Purposes: Irving Howe vs. Ralph Ellison

Dissent ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 101-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Ellison ◽  
Irving Howe

Is Oxford the Original of Jefferson in William Faulkner's Novels?

PMLA ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (4-Part1) ◽  
pp. 447-454 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. T. Buckley
Keyword(s):  
University Of Mississippi ◽  
Irving Howe ◽  
The University

It has been so much taken for granted and so unquestioningly assumed that the Jefferson, Mississippi, of William Faulkner's novels is to be identified with Oxford, the author's home and the seat of the University of Mississippi, that it may seem presumptuous of anyone to throw doubt on the identification. Certainly anyone who does so will be setting himself at variance with most if not all of the critics and biographers who have chosen to write on the gifted Mississippian. For illustrations I need menton only Robert Coughlan, Irving Howe, Ward L. Miner, and William Van O'Connor, all of whom, differing as they do on other points, are at one in thinking that Oxford served as a model for the Jefferson of the novels.

“The Rope That Connects Me Directly with You”: John Wain and the Movement Writers' Orwell

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Rodden
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
George Orwell ◽  
World War ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
Philip Larkin ◽  
Irving Howe ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
American Catholic

No British writer has had a greater impact on the Anglo-American generation which came of age in the decade following World War II than George Orwell. His influence has been, and continues to be, deeply felt by intellectuals of all political stripes, including the Marxist Left (Raymond Williams, E. P. Thompson), the anarchist Left (George Woodcock, Nicolas Walter), the American liberal-Left (Irving Howe), American neoconservatives (Norman Podhoretz), and the Anglo-American Catholic Right (Christopher Hollis, Russell Kirk).Perhaps Orwell's broadest imprint, however, was stamped upon the only literary group which has ever regarded him as a model: the Movement writers of the 1950s. Unlike the above-mentioned groups, which have consisted almost entirely of political intellectuals rather than writers—and whose members have responded to him as a political critic first and a writer second—some of the Movement writers saw Orwell not just as a political intellectual but also as the man of letters and/or literary stylist whom they aspired to be.The Movement writers were primarily an alliance of poet-critics. The “official” members numbered nine poets and novelists; a few other writers and critics loomed on the periphery. Their acknowledged genius, if not leading publicist, was Philip Larkin, who later became Britain's poet laureate. Orwell's plain voice influenced the tone and attitude of Larkin's poetry and that of several other Movement poets, especially Robert Conquest and D. J. Enright. But Orwell shone as an even brighter presence among the poet-novelists, particularly John Wain and Kingsley Amis, whose early fictional anti-heroes were direct descendants of Gordon Comstock in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936) and George Bowling in Coming Up for Air (1939).

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