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Dutch literature --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur

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During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of literature—of ideas bound to concrete images, of ideologies leavened with experiences—enshrined such values as no other medium could. Creative writing emerged as a graduate discipline in the United States amid this astonishing swirl of grand conceptions. The early workshops were formed not only at the time of, but in the image of, and under the tremendous urgency of, the postwar imperatives for the humanities. Vivid renderings of personal experience would preserve the liberal democratic soul—a soul menaced by the gathering leftwing totalitarianism of the USSR and the memory of fascism in Italy and Germany. Workshops of Empire explores this history via the careers of Paul Engle at the University of Iowa and Wallace Stegner at Stanford. In the story of these founding fathers of the discipline, Eric Bennett discovers the cultural, political, literary, intellectual, and institutional underpinnings of creative writing programs within the university. He shows how the model of literary technique championed by the first writing programs—a model that values the interior and private life of the individual, whose experiences are not determined by any community, ideology, or political system—was born out of this Cold War context and continues to influence the way creative writing is taught, studied, read, and written into the twenty-first century.

American literature --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Creative writing --- United States --- Stegner, Wallace Earle --- Criticism and interpretation --- Engle, Paul --- Cold War in literature --- Writing (Authorship) --- Authorship --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Stegner, Wallace, --- Engle, Paul, --- Stegner, Wallace Earle, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- E-books --- Cold War in literature. --- History and criticism.

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What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation as a mode of profound historical consciousness. On Endings significantly extends the project of historicizing postmodernism while returning the nuclear to a central place in the study of the Cold War.

Barth, John --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Powers, Richard --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Cold War --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- American literature --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- Influence --- Barth, John, --- Powers, Richard, --- Bart, Dz︠h︡on, --- Pinchon, Tomas --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- United States --- Criticism and interpretation --- Paouers, Ritsarnt, --- Παουερς, Ριτσαρντ, --- Cold War in literature. --- Influence.

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"In Queering Cold War Poetry, Eric Keenaghan offers queer theory, queer studies, and literary theory a new political and conceptual language for reevaluating past and present high valuations of individualism and security. He examines four Cold War poets from Cuba and the United States - Wallace Stevens, Jose Lezama Lima, Robert Duncan, and Severo Sarduy. These writers, who lived in an era when homosexuals were regarded as outsiders or even security threats, offer critiques of nationalism and liberalism. Through studies of Cuban and U.S. lyric and poetics, Queering Cold War Poetry clears the way for imagining what it means to belong to a passionate and compassionate citizenry which celebrates vulnerability, searches for difference in itself and each of its constituent individuals, and identifies less with a nation than with a global community."--Jacket.

Poetry --- Thematology --- Lezama Lima, José --- Sarduy, Severo --- Stevens, Wallace --- Duncan, Robert --- Cold War in literature --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- Liberalism in de literatuur --- Liberalism in literature --- Libéralisme dans la littérature --- Nationalism in literature --- Nationalisme dans la littérature --- Nationalisme in de literatuur --- Cold War in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Liberalism in literature. --- Gays' writings --- Homosexuality and literature --- Literatur. --- Homosexualität. --- Identität. --- Das Andere. --- Gays' writings. --- Homosexuality and literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Duncan, Robert, --- Lezama Lima, José. --- Sarduy, Severo. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1900-1999. --- USA. --- Kuba. --- Cuba. --- United States. --- Lezama Lima, Jose --- Criticism and interpretation --- Duncan, Robert Edward --- History and criticism --- United States --- 20th century --- Cuba --- Literature and homosexuality --- Literature --- Duncan, Robert Edward, --- Symmes, Robert, --- Duncan, Edward Howard, --- R. D. --- D., R. --- Duncan, Edward Howe, --- Symmes, Robert Edward, --- Sarduy Aguilar, Severo Felipe --- Aguilar, Severo Felipe Sarduy --- Gay people's writings

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Anti-communist movements in literature --- Anti-communistische bewegingen in de literatuur --- Cold War in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Geschiedenis in de literatuur --- Guerre froide dans la littérature --- Histoire dans la littérature --- History in literature --- Holocaust [Jewish ] (1939-1945) in literature --- Holocaust [Joodse ] (1939-1945) in de literatuur --- Holocaust juif (1939-1945) dans la littérature --- Koude oorlog in de literatuur --- Mouvements anticommunistes dans la littérature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Anti-communist movements in literature. --- Cold War in literature. --- American poetry --- Genocide in literature. --- History in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Literature and history --- Modernism (Literature) --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism --- History --- 19th century --- United States --- 20th century --- Genocide --- In literature