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HY4219 American Intellectual History
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Seminar 6
Dwight Macdonald
Reading:
Dwight Macdonald, "Masscult and Midcult," in Against the American Grain.
New York: Random House, 1962.
Web version
[Shorter extract available in American Literature, American Culture compiled by Gordon Hutner. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.]
Bibliography:
Joseph Epstein, "Dwight Macdonald: Sunburned by Ideas,"
The New Criterion 20 (November 2001):
Web Version
Paul R. Gorman, Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth Century
America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996: Chapter
Seven
Dwight Macdonald , A Moral Temper: the
Letters of Dwight Macdonald. Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Gregory D. Sumner Dwight MacDonald and the Politics Circle: The Challenge of
Cosmopolitan Democracy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
Robert Westbrook, "The Responsibility of Peoples: Dwight Macdonald and the
Holocaust," in his Why We Fought: Forging American Obligation in World War II.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004, pp. 93-124.
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