John Watson Aldridge

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 XX secolo.

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)

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Opere di John Watson Aldridge, su Open Library, Internet Archive.