The devil gets his due : the uncollected essays of Leslie Fiedler / Leslie Fiedler ; edited by Samuele F. S. Pardini.

• Toward an amateur criticism -- Giving the devil his due -- Explication de Texte Inferno Canto XXVI -- D. H. Lawrence on D. H. Lawrence As told to Leslie A. Fiedler -- The deerslayer -- Come back to the raft Ag'in Huck Honey! -- New England and the invention of the south -- Huckleberry Finn: the book we love to hate -- As free as any cretur... -- 1601 -- Is Shakespeare dead? -- The state of writing -- Edmund Wilson's criticism: a re-examination -- The ordeal of criticism -- Love is not enough -- the intellectual roots of anti-intellectualism -- A fortyish view -- Intellectual uncles -- The canon and the classroom: a caveat -- Ezra Pound: the poet as parodist -- Francis Scott Fitzgerald -- Pop goes the Faulker: in quest of sanctuary -- Looking back after 50 years -- Robert Penn Warren: a final word -- Capote's tale -- The city and the writer -- Style and anti-style in the short story -- The higher unfairness -- Encounter with death -- A homosexual dilemma -- The noble savages of skid row -- Up from adolescence -- The divine stupidity of Kurt Vonnegut: portrait of the novelist as Bridge over troubled water -- Notes on Philip Jose Farmer -- The return of James Branch Cabell; or, the Cream of the cream of the jest -- Who really died in Vietnam? the cost in human lives -- James Fenimore Cooper: the problem of the bad good writer -- Mythicizing the unspeakable -- The legend -- Getting it right: the flag raising at Iwo Jima -- Mythicizing the city -- Whatever happened to Jerry Lewis? That's amore...

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American literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Popular literature  -- United States -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Popular culture  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

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