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03454aam a2200373 i 4500 001 61BA8A02DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 210522t20222022enk b 001 e eng d 020 $a 9781789761726 020 $a 1789761727 035 $a (OCoLC)1252411788 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d YDXIT $d CDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 050 4 $a PN710 $b .T7595 2022 082 04 $a 801/.95 $2 23 100 1 $a Troy, William, $d 1903-1961, $e author. 240 10 $a Essays. $k Selections 245 14 $a The bookman : $b William Troy on literature and criticism,1927-1950 / $c James R. Russo. 264 1 $a Brighton : $b Sussex Academic Press, $c 2022. 300 $a ix, 217 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "William Troy (1903-1961) was a highly regarded literary critic during the 1930s and 1940s. Among his contemporaries, he ranked with Edmund Wilson, Kenneth Burke, and F. O. Matthiessen. Indeed, in the preface to the posthumous, 1968 publication of his Selected Essays, which won a National Book Award, Allen Tate placed Troy "among the handful of the best critics of this century." Troy's criticism was informed by an intelligence so balanced that, where many theoreticians took up positions in logical traps, he easily avoided them. At the very moment when scholars and critics were either treating literature like polemics or investigating ideas as if belles-lettres were a sub-category of history or philosophy, Troy acknowledged both the centrality of literary ideas and their distinction from ideas in other forms. When confronted with a text, he analyzed it with a firm sense of its inherent meaning and of its cultural implications, in a style that expresses seriousness of commitment precisely and clearly. The Bookman presents a selection of Troy's remaining writings on such major literary figures as Henry James, E. E. Cummings, Ernest Hemingway, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, André Gide, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Jean Cocteau, Willa Cather, W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf, and Ãmile Zola. Troy produced a body of work that is timeless, permanent, and exemplary--perhaps as much as, if not more so than, the work of such other critical contemporaries of his as the Anglo-Americans Yvor Winters, I. A. Richards, William Empson, George Jean Nathan, and R. P. Blackmur. Published in conjunction with Film Nation: William Troy on the Cinema, 1933- 1935 (ISBN 978-1-78976-173-3), The Bookman is clear evidence of Troy's role as one of the foremost critics of his age. Inclusion of a substantive index makes the work an essential and accessible gateway to a wide range of literary criticism." --cover page [4]. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-201) and index. 600 10 $a Troy, William, $d 1903-1961. 600 17 $a Troy, William, $d 1903-1961. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00282284 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 7 $a Literature, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000172 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Essays. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Russo, James R., $e writer of introduction. $e compiler, $e writer of introduction. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015137.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61BA8A02DCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search