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Book · 1982

Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980 (Bea Friedland, ed.)

Publication

Title
Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980 (Bea Friedland, ed.)
Author
Jacques Barzun (Columbia College, Class of 1927)
Form
Book
First published
1982
Publisher
Selected essays

Complete works of Jacques Barzun (43)

  1. 1927 Samplings and Chronicles: A Continuation of the Philolexian Society History, with Literary Selections from 1912 to 1927 (editor) · Society history
  2. 1932 The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications · Doctoral thesis
  3. 1937 Race: A Study in Modern Superstition · Methuen
  4. 1939 Of Human Freedom · Non-fiction
  5. 1941 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage · Intellectual history
  6. 1943 Romanticism and the Modern Ego · Little, Brown
  7. 1945 Teacher in America · Essays / pedagogy
  8. 1950 Berlioz and the Romantic Century · Biography
  9. 1951 Pleasures of Music: A Reader's Choice of Great Writing About Music and Musicians · Editor
  10. 1951 The Later Ego: Ego 8 and Ego 9 (editor, of James Agate diaries) · Introductory essay “Agate and His Nine Egos”
  11. 1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words · Cultural essay
  12. 1956 Music in American Life · Indiana University Press
  13. 1956 The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern · Essays
  14. 1957 The Modern Researcher (with Henry Graff) · Methods text
  15. 1959 The House of Intellect · Cultural criticism
  16. 1959 “Lincoln: The Literary Genius” · The Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 14
  17. 1961 Classic, Romantic, and Modern · Cultural criticism
  18. 1961 The Delights of Detection · Editor
  19. 1964 Science: The Glorious Entertainment · History of science
  20. 1966 Follett's Modern American Usage (completing editor) · Completed the late Wilson Follett's manuscript with six collaborators
  21. 1967 What Man Has Built (introduction to the Great Ages of Man series) · Foreword
  22. 1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going · Higher education
  23. 1971 A Catalogue of Crime: A Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres (with Wendell Hertig Taylor) · Special Edgar Award, 1972
  24. 1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing · University of Chicago Press
  25. 1974 Clio and the Doctors · Philosophy of history
  26. 1974 The Use and Abuse of Art · A. W. Mellon Lectures
  27. 1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers · Style guide
  28. 1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century · Maury A. Bromsen lecture
  29. 1982 Berlioz and His Century: An Introduction to the Age of Romanticism · Abridgment of Berlioz and the Romantic Century
  30. 1982 Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980 (Bea Friedland, ed.) · Selected essays this record
  31. 1983 A Stroll with William James · Biography
  32. 1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language · Wesleyan University Press
  33. 1986 Introduction to The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural · Foreword
  34. 1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment · Cultural criticism
  35. 1991 An Essay on French Verse: For Readers of English Poetry · Melville Cane Poetry Award, 1993
  36. 1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning · Education
  37. 1999 Hector Berlioz: Evenings with the Orchestra · Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999
  38. 2000 From Dawn to Decadence · Cultural history
  39. 2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass · Program notes
  40. 2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader · Selected writings
  41. 2002 What Is a School? and Trim the College! · Hudson Institute
  42. 2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001–2004 · Program notes
  43. 2011 Review of Adam Kirsch, Why Trilling Matters · The Wall Street Journal

Cite this record

Barzun, Jacques. Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940–1980 (Bea Friedland, ed.). Selected essays, 1982.

Foundation record: https://philolexianfoundation.org/members/barzun-jacques-cc-1927/critical-questions-on-music-and-letters-culture-and-biography-1940-1980-bea-frie-1982.html