Modernism from Right to Left

Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism

AvAlan Filreis,Albert Gelpi

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Del 79 i serien Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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Part biography and part literary history, this book is about the experience of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens in the 1930s. Stevens is generally thought to have antagonised, even engaged, the young literary radicals of the period. Using the archives of many little-known political poets, Alan Filreis offers a detailed description of these battles, in which the very texture of the various positions taken up in the movement between left and right becomes available to us in the language of the participants. Filreis demonstrates that the radicals knew and appreciated modernism more than has been generally recognised, and that Stevens's poetry - as well as that of other then-eminent modernists was significantly influenced by political poets and critics on the left. This book is a contribution to the cultural history of the American 1930s as well as a novel approach to an oft-studied figure.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-06-08
Mått:153 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:588 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Antal sidor:396
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521619400

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'A masterpiece of brilliant research and fresh analysis, Modernism from Right to Left is also a compelling conceptual breakthrough launching the study of mid-20th century U.S. poetry on an entirely new course. In a hitherto unprecedented synthesis, Alan Filreis reinscribes a major canonical figure in the context of a 1930s leftwing poetry renaissance that has been largely obscured, ignored, and caricatured. He thus returns to history the contributions of many previously 'lost' writers, as well as reconfiguring the terrain of vital politico-cultural debates that nurtured, stimulated and troubled the mind and imagination of Wallace Stevens.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan

Innehållsförteckning

List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Which side are you on?; Part I. Arrogations: 2. The poet and the depression; 3. What superb mechanics; Part II. Convergences: 4. The rage for order; 5. Turmoil in the middle ground: politicizing the lyric; 6. Toward a rhyming of opposites: 'Owl's Clover'; 7. A million people on one string; Notes; Index.