{"product_id":"immediate-experience","title":"Immediate Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e magazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Long before the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the best literary magazines of the day, Robert Warshow wrote analyses of the folklore of modern life that were as sensitive and penetrating as the writings of James Agee, George Orwell, and Walter Benjamin. Some of these essays--notably \"The Westerner,\" \"The Gangster as Tragic Hero,\" and the pieces on the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMad Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, Arthur Miller's \u003ci\u003eThe Crucible\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Rosenberg letters--are classics, once frequently anthologized but now hard to find.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlong with a new preface by Stanley Cavell, \u003ci\u003eThe Immediate Experience\u003c\/i\u003e includes several essays not previously published in the book--on Kafka and Hemingway--as well as Warshow's side of an exchange with Irving Howe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54221973553496,"sku":"9780674007260","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780674007260.jpg?v=1771319742","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/immediate-experience","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}