January 1, 1950
Movie Letter: Foreign Films and the Main Problem
The main problem facing all film today is not split by any ocean. Nobody, from the shyest experimentalist to the most heedless super-producer, can get around it because it is […]
January 1, 1950
An American Theatre Critic! (Or the China in the Bull Shop)
Because he will spend most of his time seeing bad things, the American theatre critic must know a bad thing when he sees it; he must remember to say that […]
January 1, 1950
The Novel of Manners in America
Mr. Blackmur has recently suggested in the pages of The Kenyon Review (Winter, 1949) that we are probably in for a little “new criticism” of the novel; he does not […]
January 1, 1950
Parody and Critique: Notes on Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus
In this country, at this time, our way of looking at our culture makes it difficult for us to look at a work of literary art which announces itself in […]
January 1, 1950
Dance Chronicle: New Trends in Modern Dance
Although modern dance is nowadays more firmly entrenched in the schools and colleges than it is in the theatres known to most Americans, it belongs in the theatre and has […]
October 1, 1949
The Musician’s Commitment
From the French. It looks as if society and the arts were always at cross-purposes.1 For its part, society has never lacked champions ready to legislate on the arts […]
October 1, 1949
Communications
Sirs, The problems of the post here have kept me from getting my Spring Kenyon Review till July, when I write this; I do not want to hide from the […]
October 1, 1949
Pierre Bonnard
The death in 1947 of Pierre Bonnard has at last established for him recognition as one of the greatest painters of the 20th Century. His indifference to publicity and his […]
October 1, 1949
Fiction and the “Matrix of Analogy” ¹
If the novel, as R. P. Blackmur recently proposed, is now to enjoy the kind of attention from criticism that for the past twenty years has been the privilege of […]
October 1, 1949
German Stagecraft Today
After seeing my production of The Caucasian Chalk Circle in Philadelphia a very friendly critic wrote of Brecht: One has the feeling that he is unconcerned with settings, with the […]
October 1, 1949
The Pathos of the Proletariat
“And he himself must speak through [the mask) saying thus . . . ‘If you think I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my life: no, I […]
October 1, 1949
Donne and the Rhetorical Tradition
[This Review will publish a series of fresh papers on the poet Donne, running through several numbers, in the belief that he deserves a new evaluation now that the controversial […]