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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1917
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Author : H.L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Release Date : 1917
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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
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Author : Professor H L Mencken
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-09-11
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A collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements.I. Joseph ConradII. Theodore DreiserIII. James HunekerIV. Puritanism as a Literary Force
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Author : Professor H L Mencken
language : en
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Release Date : 2020-08-21
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A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken described the work as "[My] most important book in its effects upon my professional career." In fact, the book was considered vitriolic enough that Mencken's close friend Alfred Knopf was concerned about publishing it because of the massive increase in patriotism during World War I in America. The book was eighty pages long and divided into four essays. The first three were concerned with specific writers: Theodore Dreiser, Joseph Conrad and James Gibbons Huneker, respectively. But perhaps the most important, and certainly the most outspoken essay was entitled "Puritanism as a Literary Force," during which he alleged that William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain were victims of the Puritan spirit. "The Puritan's utter lack of aesthetic sense, his distrust of all romantic emotion, his unmatchable intolerance of opposition, his unbreakable belief in his own bleak and narrow views, his savage cruelty of attack, his lust for relentless and barbarous persecution - these things have put an almost unbearable burden up on the exchange of ideas in the United States." Mencken had criticized Puritanism for many years, famously characterizing it as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," but through World War I his criticism became increasingly outspoken, in part due to the rising tide of Prohibition. Mencken's book triggered the imagination of a famous American author. As a teen first entering the world of reading and books in the early 1920s, Richard Wright found literary inspiration in A Book of Prefaces. Response to Mencken's book was generally poor, but certain defenders of American culture were particularly outspoken in their criticism of the book--most notably Stuart Sherman, a professor at the University of Illinois (Sherman was personally attacked in Prefaces). According to Sherman: "[Mencken] leaps from the saddle with sabre flashing, stables his horse in the church, shoots the priest, hangs three professors, exiles the Academy, burns the library and the university, and amid smoking ashes, erects a new school of criticism on modern German principles." Other major critics included Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt, although neither of these was as vitriolic as Sherman. According to Mencken, Sherman's review was "a masterly exposure of what is going on in the Puritan mind, and particularly of its maniacal fear of the German." "The curse of criticism in America is the infernal babbling of third-rate college professor... [the Book of Prefaces] shook the professors as they had never been shaken before." (wikipedia.org)
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Author : H L Menchin
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
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H. L. Mencken's classic collection of literary prefaces spans over 20 years of his career and features his sharp wit and critical eye on the literary world of his time. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Author : H. L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Release Date : 2007-02-01
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Author : Alasdair Gray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2002-01-01
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'Grandly conceived, gorgeously realised, and sparklingly alert to the making not just of works of art, but of a language, this crammed compendium, so copiously yet lightly learned, so drolly self-reflexive, yet enticingly accessible, so exhilaratingly, quixotically magniloquent, is the last word in forewords.' Herald
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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
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Author : Henry L. Mencken
language : en
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Release Date : 1977
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