This man opened one work with the observation that "it is hard to be a minor writer... especially in the United States," and in that work, declared its subject, Sherwood Anderson, to have been a minor writer who in "a few crucial instances... did first rate, perhaps even major, work."
This man opened one work with the observation that "it is hard to be a minor writer... especially in the United States," and in that work, declared its subject, Sherwood Anderson, to have been a minor writer who in "a few crucial instances... did first rate, perhaps even major, work." In another work, this man argued that the downfall of the title ideology was partially attributable to "Emersonianism," and suggested that it declare itself "a partial ally of a liberalism with which it shares fundamental democratic values." In addition to that collection of essays titled Socialism and America, this man borrowed Stendahl's quote that "politics in a work of literature is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert," to begin a work of criticism that praised The Possessed as the greatest political novel; that book was titled Politics and the Novel. This man wrote about the process of Eastern European Jewish immigration and assimilation into America in his National Book Award-winning World of Our Fathers and much of his writing was done in a quarterly he founded with other New York intellectuals in 1954. For 10 points, identify this socialist Jewish thinker and critic who co-founded Dissent.
This man opened one work with the observation that "it is hard to be a minor writer... especially in the United States," and in that work, declared its subject, Sherwood Anderson, to have been a minor writer who in "a few crucial instances... did first rate, perhaps even major, work."
Irving Howe