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Existentialism and alienation in American literature,, by Sidney Finkelstein

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Existentialism and alienation in American literature,, by Sidney Finkelstein

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eng

Bibliography note

"Reference notes": pages 301-308

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no index present

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non fiction

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Existentialism and alienation in American literature,

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bibliography

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352196

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by Sidney Finkelstein

Table Of Contents

1. Introduction: Art and Philosophy -- 2. The Enlightenment: Doubts and Concepts of Progress -- 3. Capitalism Viewed by Kierkegaard and Marx -- 4. Dostoievsky: Realist and Anti-Realist -- 5. Nietzsche: The Myth and the Unconscious -- 6. Existentialism and German Fascism / Husserl, Heidegger and Jaspers -- 7. Social Responsibility of the Existentialist Artist / Camus and Sartre -- 8. Sociological and Literary Depiction of Alienation / Marx, Balzac and Eugene O'Neill -- 9. Alienation as a Literary Syle / F. Scott Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot -- 10. Conflict Between Humanization and Alienation / William Faulkner -- 11. Alienation and Rebellion to Nowhere / John Dos Passos and Henry Miller -- Cold War, Religious Revival and Family Alienation / William Styron, J. D. Salinger and Edward Albee -- 13. Alienated Expression and Existentialist Answers -- A. Acceptance of Alienation: John Updike and James Purdy -- B. Lost Social Convictions and Existentialism: Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow -- C. Existentialism and Social Demands: Norman Mailer and James Baldwin -- 14. The Morality of Human Progress

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