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Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Nicholas Howe, Ohio State University -- CHAPTER ONE -- Individualism and Institutions in Medieval Religious Communities -- Giles Constable, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton -- CHAPTER TWO -- Visual Communities in Byzantium and Medieval Islam -- Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University -- CHAPTER THREE -- "Illustris patriarcha Joseph": Jean Gerson,Representations of Saint Joseph, and Imagining Community among Churchmen inthe Fifteenth Century -- Pamela Sheingorn, City University of New York -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Catholic Communities and Their Art -- Annabel Patterson, Yale University -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Cartography and Community in the Hispanic World -- Richard L. Kagan, Johns Hopkins University

Howe reviews Where I Was From by Joan Didion and The Colossus of New York: A City in Thirteen Parts by Colson Whitehead.

Nicholas Howe explores the works of his father, Irving Howe, & the nature of the reviews & essays that have been written about his works. He argues that although reviewers define Howe by what he knew & lived -- a Jewish New York socialist with European tastes -- his books, reviews, political articles, & other pieces have caused reviewers to wonder if "Irving Howe," the largely self-educated immigrant, was a syndicate, rather than an individual. This article explores why Howe's three books were on Sherwood Anderson, William Faulkner, & Thomas Hardy, authors who were more rural & traditional in their settings & subjects than Howe's interest & experience with urban & modernism reflected. All three authors, however, chronicled a passage from traditional life into the crisis of modernity. Howe's works together give some validity to the experiences of an urban immigrant & Jewish socialist seeking a new life as part of the American experience. L. A. Hoffman