Against the American Grain
Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture
Macdonald, Dwight
Publisher: Vintage, New York, USA
Year Published: 1962
Pages: 432pp Price: $2.25 Resource Type: Book
Cx Number: CX6670
Critical essays on American culture.
Abstract:
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Table of Contents:
MASSCULT & MIDCULT
HEROES/VICTIMS
Mark Twain
James Joyce
James Agee
Appendix: Jim Agee, a Memoir
Ernest Hemingway
Appendix: Dissenting Opinion
PRETENDERS
By Cozzens Possessed
Inside The Outsider
Appendix: Hands across the sea
Looking Backward
BETRAYALS
The Book-of-the-Millennium Club
Appendix: The Hard Sell
Updating the Bible
Appendix: The Camford Bible
The String Untuned
The Decline and Fall of English
EXAMINATIONS
Amateur Journalism
Howtoism
The Triumph of the Fact
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