Books Briefly
Books Briefly SHERWOOD ANDERSON: DIMENSIONS OF HIS LITERARY ART, edited by David D. Anderson (Michigan State University Press. 141 pp. $9.50). Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) attempted almost every...
...Interspersed with his search for understanding man, Borland focuses an acutely sensitive eye on details of the natural world and the changing seasons...
...10...
...Nineteenth Century women writers, whose lives and works reflect the conflict between the submissive-ness associated with women and the intellectual curiosity they needed to express, have until now been ignored or misunderstood...
...Russell not only describes the actions of 1,200 striking policemen, the rioters, and the soldiers called in to quell rioting and looting, but also presents interesting sidelights on the high officials involved...
...Historian Francis Russell, a Bostonian with childhood memories of the 1919 period, gives a vivid hour-by-hour account of the events in which eight persons died, twenty-one were wounded, and at least fifty injured...
...HAL BORLAND'S BOOK OF DAYS (Knopf...
...In this overview of a year's span, conservationist and essayist Hal Borland probes three questions: 'Who am I? Where am 1? What time is it...
...Moglen's knowledgeable and sensitive criticism should demonstrate to other critics — and to the perceptive reader — that many of our assumptions about "the classics" have until now been much too narrowly and superficially achieved...
...Charlotte Bronte's lifelong struggle to understand her own needs and emotions found its only expression in her novels...
...Among them, Russell notes, were Mayor Andrew Peters, "who had an apparently uncontrollable passion for pubescent girls, those whom the lepidop-terous Nabokov would come to classify as nymphets," and Governor Calvin Coolidge, the only one to profit politically from the calamity, a cautious man who measured his words with a teaspoon...
...Moglen's study carefully examines the effects of Bronte's experience on her works and leads us to a better understanding of the author of Jane Eyre...
...For the first time a large American city (700,000) was left without police protection...
...A CITY IN TERROR —THE 1919 BOSTON POLICE STRIKE, by Francis Russell (Viking...
...Feminism has finally begun to affect traditional fields of scholarship and is giving exciting new dimensions to subjects grown stale...
...An eminently readable, thoughtful book, beautifully illustrated by William Downey...
...Overnight his name became a household word, and his declaration, "There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime," was echoed around the nation...
...Fortunately, Jazz Is is not an erudite, theoretical study...
...To commemorate the centenary of Anderson's birth (at Camden, Ohio), editor David D. Anderson (not related to his fellow Ohioan) has collected here eight essays by a new, younger generation of critics and scholars...
...Well aware of man's capacity for destruction and the gloom of world events, he still finds "no alternative to belief in life...
...333 pp...
...The book is not a necessity — indeed, the overly large type, wide margins, and $10 price constitute a rip-off the publishers ought to be ashamed of— yet it is honest, warmly written, and a nice addition to one's jazz library...
...10...
...11.95...
...And The Wall Street Journal, which had seen "Lenin and Trotsky on their way," was much relieved...
...instead, the musicians themselves talk about their music, their lives making it, and the struggle of constantly producing, and growing in, an ever-oppressed art form...
...Editor Anderson, who wrote a book-length study of the novelist and short-story writer in 1967, contributes a perceptive essay to this collection, and other especially notable commentaries are written by Walter B. Rideout, Linda W. Wagner, and William A. Sutton...
...288 pp...
...feminist biography is one example...
...Jazz critic Nat Hentoffs book offers all sorts of glimpses and interesting insights into the lives of some giants in the field: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holliday, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane among them...
...Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) attempted almost every literary genre but was most successful with the sketches and short stories in which he searched for the meaning of his experience in a society he felt was rapidly growing more impersonal and materialistic...
...256 pp...
...CHARLOTTE BRONTE: THE SELF CONCEIVED, by Helene Moglen (W.W...
...Norton...
...256 pp...
...He believes that all life processes "are governed by rhythms," including breathing, digestion, hearing, eyesight, the sense of touch, speech, and thought...
...JAZZ IS, by Nat Hentoff (Random House...
...Sherwood Anderson's critical reputation seems to be higher now than at any time in the past fifty years...
...10...
Vol. 40 • December 1976 • No. 12
