New Fiedler Reader

Leslie Fiedler''s radical opinions and theories have changed the way we think about American literature and pop culture, challenging long-established schools and ushering in a genre of first-person, experience-based criticism. Praised and respected as "e;one of the most important figures in the history of American cultural thought in this century,"e; Fiedler introduced groundbreaking ideas that now permeate university studies in literature: a homoerotic element in American machismo, interracial dependence as the classical American bond, those on the social margins being "e;secret selves,"e; and the continuum of "e;high"e; and "e;low"e; culture.Designed to delight Fiedler''s contemporary audience and introduce the author to a whole new generation of readers, A New Fiedler Reader is a captivating anthology of Fiedler''s most notorious and celebrated essays, along with a selection of his engaging poems and short fiction.A literary icon, Fiedler is among those who urged legalization of marijuana in the late ''60s; suggested that college students read Timothy Leary along with Milton; and was accused of corrupting the young with dangerous leftist ideas. Collected are Fiedler''s most widely known articles, from "e;Come Back to the Raft Ag''in, Huck Honey!"e; to "e;An Almost Imaginary Interview: Hemingway in Ketchum."e; Complementing these essays are various lesser known poems and short stories, providing the reader with the complete Fiedler experience.