Nonfiction
Spring 1949
Gide’s Cubist Novel
The painter Fromentin once complained to the Goncourts that because the arts had become unheroic he could undertake no “big subjects.” For their part the Goncourts were content to put […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1948
Aesthetic of Revolution: The Marxist Melodrama
The world of Dickens, we agree, is constructed upon a dualism of values that, aesthetically, are the values of melodrama: the good people and the bad, the proud and the […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1945
Arabesque in Verse (Reconsiderations III)
The appearance of Fiske Kimball’s authoritative book on The Creation of the Rococo may be as significant for the critic of literature as for the critic of the fine arts. […]