Rahv, Philip

Rahv, Philip( 1908–73),
Ukrainian-born literary critic, came to the U.S. in 1922 and within a decade became an important figure in its culture as co-founder and editor of Partisan Review. His essays are collected in Image and Idea (1949), including the seminal Paleface and Redskin on the dichotomy between experience and consciousness in American writers; The Myth and the Powerhouse (1965); and Literature and the Sixth Sense (1969). Essays on Literature and Politics (1978) is a posthumous collection. Beginning in 1957 he was a member of the Brandeis faculty.