LEADER 04418oam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910782140603321 005 20190503073345.0 010 $a0-262-26075-1 010 $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 $a20080905d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe men in my life /$fVivian Gornick 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2008 215 $axiii, 194 p 225 1 $aBoston review book 300 $a"A Boston Review book." 311 $a0-262-07303-X 327 $aGeorge Gissing: A neurotic for our times -- H.G. Wells: The beginning of wisdom -- Loren Eiseley: Excavating the self -- Randall Jarrell: Reading to save his life -- Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor -- Allen Ginsberg: America's holy fool -- Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, Richard Ford: Tenderhearted men -- James Baldwin and V.S. Naipaul: America made the difference. 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 $aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc 606 $aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects 606 $aSocial problems in literature 606 $aMale authors$xAppreciation 606 $aAuthorship$xSex differences 606 $aLiterature and society 610 $aHUMANITIES/Literature & Criticism 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Gender Studies 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc. 615 0$aAuthorship$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aSocial problems in literature. 615 0$aMale authors$xAppreciation. 615 0$aAuthorship$xSex differences. 615 0$aLiterature and society. 676 $a810.9 700 $aGornick$b Vivian$0142288 712 02$aMassachusetts Institute of Technology. 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782140603321 996 $aThe men in my life$93846626 997 $aUNINA