LEADER 03958nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910453929003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-262-27410-8 010 $a1-4356-6284-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000537533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000201194 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168426 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000201194 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10232005 035 $a(PQKB)11134472 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338917 035 $a(OCoLC)245529356$z(OCoLC)463189600$z(OCoLC)646755972$z(OCoLC)704033649$z(OCoLC)961539500$z(OCoLC)962592790$z(OCoLC)1037508143 035 $a(OCoLC-P)245529356 035 $a(MaCbMITP)8016 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338917 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10237090 035 $a(OCoLC)245529356 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000537533 100 $a20080523d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe men in my life$b[electronic resource] /$fVivian Gornick 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dc2008 215 $axiii, 194 p 225 1 $aBoston review book 300 $a"A Boston Review book." 311 $a0-262-07303-X 330 $aGornick on V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth and the intimate relationship between emotional damage and great literature.Vivian Gornick, one of our finest critics, tackled the theme of love and marriage in her last collection of essays, The End of the Novel of Love, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In this new collection, she turns her attention to another large theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. Great literature, she believes, is not the record of the achievement, but of the effort.Gornick, who emerged as a major writer during the second-wave feminist movement, came to realize that "ideology alone could not purge one of the pathological self-doubt that seemed every woman's bitter birthright." Or, as Anton Chekhov put it so memorably: "Others made me a slave, but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop." Perhaps surprisingly, Gornick found particular inspiration for this challenge in the work of male writers--talented, but locked in perpetual rage, self-doubt, or social exile. From these men--who had infinitely more permission to do and be than women had ever known--she learned what it really meant to wrestle with demons. In the essays collected here, she explores the work of V. S. Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H. G. Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. Throughout the book, Gornick is at her best: interpreting the intimate interrelationship of emotional damage, social history, and great literature. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects 606 $aAuthorship$xSex differences 606 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aLiterature and society 606 $aMale authors$xAppreciation 606 $aSocial problems in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aAuthorship$xSex differences. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 615 0$aMale authors$xAppreciation. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 676 $a810.9 700 $aGornick$b Vivian$0142288 712 02$aMassachusetts Institute of Technology. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453929003321 996 $aThe men in my life$92094089 997 $aUNINA