And After."
This thinker asked the psychoanalyst Rudolph Friedmann whether his interpretation of the children's book Strewelpeter was intended as a joke, before including it in an anthology of parodies subtitled "From Chaucer to BeerbohmÂ—And After." An essay by this thinker ends by analogizing its subject to an alternate version of The Death of Ivan Ilych in which Ivan Ilych thinks he deserves to die of cancer. Another essay by this critic rips apart books like The Old Man and the Sea and Our Town for representing the (*) "tepid ooze" of one of its title concepts. This critic is best-known for an essay in which he complained about the critical reaction to a 1957 novel about the attorney Arthur Winner. This man's cultural criticism is collected in the volume Against the American Grain. For 10 points, name this critic who introduced the concept of "midcult," and who wrote the book review "By Cozzens Possessed."
This thinker asked the psychoanalyst Rudolph Friedmann whether his interpretation of the children's book Strewelpeter was intended as a joke, before including it in an anthology of parodies subtitled "From Chaucer to BeerbohmÂ—
Dwight MacDonald 