Leopards in the Temple (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Morris Dickstein
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Principal Characters: James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, J. D. Salinger, John Updike
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, 1940’s, Novelists, Minorities, Jazz music, Painting or painters, Films, movies, or motion pictures, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Arts or crafts
A strong case can be made that the period from 1945 to the late 1970’s was the golden age of American fiction. More novels likely to be read and studied by future generations were published during this time than any other era. Unlike earlier periods, in which most American writers followed the same schools—Romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism—the post-World War II era saw a much greater diversity in approaches to the novel and short story. In Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970, Morris Dickstein examines a sizable segment of the...
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