John Watson Aldridge
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James Watson Aldridge (Sioux City, 22 settembre 1922 – Madison, 7 febbraio 2007) è stato uno scrittore statunitense.
Provocò scompiglio nella critica letteraria americana attaccando nelle sue opere la tradizione accademica. Aldridge fu uno dei più significativi scrittori della seconda metà del '900.
[modifica] Opere
- After the lost generation; a critical study of the writers of two wars. (1951)
- Critiques and essays on modern fiction, 1920–1951, representing the achievement of modern American and British critics; with a foreword by Mark Schorer. (1952)
- In search of heresy; American literature in an age of conformity. (1956)
- Party at Cranton. (1960)
- Time to murder and create: the contemporary novel in crisis. (1966)
- In the country of the young. (1970)
- Devil in the fire; retrospective essays on American literature and culture, 1951-1971. (1972)
- American novel and the way we live now. (1983)
- Classics & contemporaries. (1992)
- Talents and technicians : literary chic and the new assembly-line fiction. (1992)
