The Devil Gets His Due The Uncollected Essays of Leslie Fiedler

by Fiedler, Leslie; Pardini, Samuele F. S.

• ISBN13: 9781593762667
• ISBN10: 1593762666
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-22
• Publisher: Soft Skull

Summary

Leslie Fiedler inspired both reverence and rage-Leonard Cohen described him leaning over the American moonlight / like the shyest gargoyle / who will not become angry or old, while Saul Bellow called him the worst fucking thing that ever happened to American literature. Love him or hate him, Fiedlers influence on academics and intellectuals remains undeniable, and in 1998 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle.

Author Biography

Samuele F.S. Pardini is a visiting assistant professor of Italian and Interdisciplinary Studies at Elon University, in North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and son.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction Sympathy for the Devil. Looking Backward for a New Tradition	p. xiii
Toward an Amateur Criticism	p. 3
öGiving the Devil His Dueö	p. 13
Explication de Texte Inferno Canto XXVI	p. 25
D. H. Lawrence on D. H. Lawrence As Told to Leslie A. Fiedler	p. 34
The Deerslayer	p. 37
Come Back to the Raft AgÆin, Huck Honey!	p. 46
New England and the Invention of the South	p. 54
Huckleberry Finn: The Book We Love to Hate	p. 64
öAs Free as Any Cretur …ö	p. 77
1601	p. 86
Is Shakespeare Dead?	p. 92
The State of Writing	p. 99
Edmund WilsonÆs Criticism: A Re-examination	p. 104
The Ordeal of Criticism	p. 107
Love is not Enough	p. 111
The Intellectual Roots of Anti-Intellectualism	p. 115
A Fortyish View	p. 120
Intellectual Uncles	p. 125
The Canon and the Classroom: A Caveat	p. 128
Ezra Pound: The Poet as Parodist	p. 136
Francis Scott Fitzgerald	p. 148
Pop Goes the Faulkner: In Quest of Sanctuary	p. 149
Looking Back After 50 Years	p. 162
Robert Penn Warren: A Final Word	p. 172
CapoteÆs Tale	p. 181
The City and the Writer	p. 183
Style and Anti-Style in the Short Story	p. 187
The Higher Unfairness	p. 199
Encounter with Death	p. 202
A Homosexual Dilemma	p. 204
The Noble Savages of Skid Row	p. 207
Up from Adolescence	p. 210
The Divine Stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut: Portrait of the Novelist as Bridge over Troubled Water	p. 2l5
Notes on Philip José Farmer	p. 230
The Return of James Branch Cabell; Or, the Cream of the Cream of the Jest	p. 236
Who Really Died in Vietnam? The Cost in Human Lives	p. 246
James Fenimore Cooper: The Problem of the Bad Good Writer	p. 252
Mythicizing the Unspeakable	p. 263
The Legend	p. 274
Getting It Right: The Flag Raisings at Iwo Jima	p. 282
Mythicizing the City	p. 296
Whatever Happened to Jerry Lewis? ThatÆs Amore…	p. 304
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