- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
Strangers {1977}
Strangers {1977}
- Chapter:
- (p.182) Strangers {1977}
- Source:
- A Voice Still Heard
- Author(s):
Irving Howe
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter presents Irving Howe's 1977 essay “Strangers,” a personal account of how young Jewish American students growing up in the immigrant slums of New York in the 1920s and 1930s came to terms with American literature. Howe describes the experiences shared by this generation of American Jewish writers and explores how one makes sense of Ralph Waldo Emerson or Robert Frost when their experiences were so distant from those of the urban immigrants. He also examines why American Jewish writers of fiction did not experiment much with modernism and suggests that it was upon language that they left their mark. More specifically, Howe explains how the Jews helped create a new American style in literature.
Keywords: fiction, Irving Howe, New York, American literature, American Jewish writers, Ralph Waldo Emerson, immigrants, modernism, language, Jews
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Introduction: A Voice Still Heard
- This Age of Conformity {1954}
- Review of The Country of the Pointed Firs, by Sarah Orne Jewett {1954}
- The Stories of Bernard Malamud {1958}
- Doris Lessing: No Compromise, No Happiness {1963}
- Life Never Let Up: Review of Call It Sleep {1964}
- New Styles in “Leftism” {1965}
- George Orwell: “As the Bones Know” {1968}
- The New York Intellectuals {1969}
- A Grave and Solitary Voice: An Appreciation of Edwin Arlington Robinson {1970}
- What's the Trouble? Social Crisis, Crisis of Civilization, or Both {1971}
- The City in Literature {1971}
- Tribune of Socialism: Norman Thomas {1976}
- Strangers {1977}
- Introduction: Twenty-five Years of Dissent {1979}
- Introduction: The Best of Sholom Aleichem, with Ruth Wisse {1979}
- Mission from Japan: Review of The Samurai {1982}
- Absalom in Israel: Review of Past Continuous {1985}
- Why Has Socialism Failed in America? {1985}
- Writing and the Holocaust {1986}
- Reaganism: The Spirit of the Times {1986}
- Two Cheers for Utopia {1993}
- The Road Leads Far Away: Review of A Surplus of Memory {1993}
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf {1994}
- Dickens: Three Notes {1994}
- Tolstoy: Did Anna Have to Die?{1994}
- Reflection on the Death of My Father {1982}
- From the Thirties to the Rise of Neoconservatism: Interview with Stephen Lewis {1983}
- Sources
