"Leslie Fiedler and American culture have made a tumultuous marriage throughout much of the twentieth century. Fiedler's prolific career, as scholar, critic, novelist, memoirist, translator, and professor, has been a series of provocations." "Leslie Fiedler and American Culture marks the start of its subject's ninth decade. The first such collection devoted entirely to Fiedler, it gathers together spirited responses to his work by scholars, critics, and poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The controversial Leslie Fiedler (1917-2003) was one of the first critics of popular culture as well as an early proponent of queer theory. This book traces the evolution of this larger-than-life figure through an extensive examination of his works. Beginning with his homoerotic reading of the relationship between Jim and Huck Finn in the Mark Twain novel, this book covers how his many contributions have been provocative, outrageous, novel, and enduring.

Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately).

The four volume set consists of ninety-seven of the pamphlets originally published as the University of Minnesota pamphlets on American writers. Some have been revised and updated.

A sequel to "Classics in Cultural Criticism I" and "II," this volume extends the synoptic view into the present and thus systematically supplements the first two volumes. The overall conception is analogous to that of the predecessors and, consistent with the general design, the book is again the fruit of a joint labor of English/American and german scholarship. The contemporary critics dealt with encompass Raymond Williams ("Tony Pinkney"), Leslie Fiedler ("Walter Kuhnel"), E.P. Thompson ("Richard Stinshoff"), Fredric Jameson ("Ingrid Kerkhoff"), Daniel Bell ("Heinz Tschachler"), Susan Sontag ("Gary Grieve-Carlson"), James Baldwin ("Klaus Ensslen"), Theodore Roszak ("Thomas R. West"), Edward Said ("Gunter H. Lenz"), Christopher Lasch /"Rosita Becke"), Stuart Hall ("Ingrid von Rosenberg"), Kate Millett ("Blanche Linden-Ward"), C.L.R. James ("Jens David"), Adrienne Rich ("Elizabeth Meese"), Neil Postmann ("Peter Ludes"). The book is prefaced by the editors and again features bibliographies of the works of all critics under discussion."

Presents a collection of author's essays, poems, and short stories.

These fourteen original essays on the politics of literature investigate aspects of our understanding of the political muse, with a focus on American writing since World War II. Essays include: "American Literature, Politics, and the Last Good War," "The Literary Art of the Hollywood Ten," "The Plight of the Left-Wing Screenwriter," and "Amiri Baraka and the Politics of Popular Culture."