‘Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers’ with Edward Mendelson

[Dave Monroe]

Date: Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 11 am
Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St
Venue: Weill Art Gallery
Price: from $35.00

Drawing on newly published letters and diaries, Edward Mendelson
offers a provocative reassessment of the lives and work of eight
influential 20th-century American writers: Lionel Trilling, Dwight
Macdonald, W. H. Auden, William Maxwell, Saul Bellow, Alfred Kazin,
Norman Mailer and Frank O’Hara.

http://www.92y.org/Event/Moral-Agents.aspx

Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers

http://www.randomhouse.com/book/239456/moral-agents-eight-twentieth-century-american-writers-by-edward-mendelson/9781590177761

His work on Thomas Pynchon includes Pynchon: A Collection of Critical
Essays (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane,
and The Crying of Lot 49 (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and
"Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas
Pynchon. The latter essay introduced the critical category of
"encyclopedic narrative, further elaborated in a later essay,
"Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mendelson

Pynchon’s Mrs. Dalloway

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/sep/27/pynchon-woolf-women/
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