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With this book, Alan Wald launches a bold and passionate account of the U.S. Literary Left from the 1920s through the 1960s. Exiles from a Future Time, the first volume of a trilogy, focuses on the forging of a Communist-led literary tradition in the 1930s. Exploring writers' intimate lives and heartfelt political commitments, Wald draws on original research in scores of archives and personal collections of papers; correspondence and interviews with hundreds of writers and their friends and families; and a treasure trove of unpublished memoirs, fiction, and poetry. In fashioning
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American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald's multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the Communist worldview was being called into question. The resulting literature, Wald shows, is a haunting record of fracture and struggle linked by common structures of feeling, ones more suggestive
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Political poetry, American --- Politics and literature --- Women and literature --- American poetry --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Right and left (Political science) in literature --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American political poetry --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- Ridge, Lola, --- Taggard, Genevieve, --- Walker, Margaret, --- Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker, --- Political and social views.
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"Britain's domestic intelligence agencies maintained secret records on many left-wing writers after the First World War. Drawing on recently declassified material from 1930 to 1960, this revealing study examines how leading figures in Britain's literary scene fell under MI5 and Special Branch surveillance, and the surprising extent to which writers became willing participants in the world of covert intelligence and propaganda. Chapters devoted to W. H. Auden and his associates, theatre pioneers Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood, George Orwell, and others describe methods used by MI5 to gather information through and about the cultural world. The book also investigates how these covert agencies assessed the political influence of such writers, providing scholars and students of twentieth-century British literature an unprecedented account of clandestine operations in popular culture"--
English literature --- Politics and literature --- Intelligence service in literature. --- Espionage, British --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- British espionage --- History and criticism. --- History --- Great Britain. --- UK Security Service --- Imperial Security Intelligence Service (England) --- MI5 --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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Highlighting the works of William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, Bill O'Reilly, and others on the American political right, Michelle Ann Abate brings together such diverse fields as cultural studies, literary criticism, political science, childhood studies, brand marketing, and the cult of celebrity. Raising Your Kids Right dispels lingering societal attitudes that narratives for young readers are unworthy of serious political study by examining a variety of texts that offer information, ideology, and even instructions on how to raise kids right, not just figuratively but politically.
Conservatism --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Conservatism and literature --- Politics and literature --- Children's literature, American --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- Literature and conservatism --- History --- History and criticism. --- Political aspects
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
American fiction --- Communism and literature --- Socialism and literature --- Politics and literature --- Political fiction, American --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Depressions in literature. --- Literature and socialism --- Literature --- History and criticism. --- History
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Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950's leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work incorporates these black intellectuals back into our understanding of mid-twentieth-century African American literature and art and expands our understanding of the creative ferment energizing all of America during this period. Mary Helen Washington reads four representative writers-Lloyd Brown, Frank London Brown, Alice Childress, and Gwendolyn Brooks-and surveys the work of the visual artist Charles White. She traces resonances of leftist ideas and activism in their artistic achievements and follows their balanced critique of the mainstream liberal and conservative political and literary spheres. Her study recounts the targeting of African American as well as white writers during the McCarthy era, reconstructs the events of the 1959 Black Writers' Conference in New York, and argues for the ongoing influence of the Black Popular Front decades after it folded. Defining the contours of a distinctly black modernism and its far-ranging radicalization of American politics and culture, Washington fundamentally reorients scholarship on African American and Cold War literature and life.
American literature --- African Americans --- Politics and literature --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- Cold War in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life --- History --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- United States
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In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930's through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960's. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930's American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American
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Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930's in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics, these modernist poets keenly felt the pressure of the times and politicized literary scene. All four poets saw their reputations critically challenged in these years and felt compelled to respond to the new politics, literary and national, in distinct ways, ranging from rejection to in
Cummings, Edward Estlin --- Stevens, Wallace --- Frost, Robert --- Williams, William C. --- Right and left (Political science) in literature --- Williams, William Carlos --- American poetry --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Politics and literature --- United States --- History --- Poets [American ] --- Political and social views --- Frost, Robert Lee --- Poets, American --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- American poets --- Political and social views. --- History and criticism. --- Williams, William Carlos, --- Frost, Robert, --- Cummings, E. E. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- וויליאמס, וויליאם קרלוס, --- ויליאמס, ויליאם קרלוס, --- Ṿiliʼams, Ṿiliʼam Ḳarlos, --- Frost, Robert Lee, --- פראסט, ראבערט, --- פרוסט, רוברט, --- فروست ، روبرت --- Фрост, Роберт, --- Kaminjz, I. I., --- Cummings, Edward Estlin, --- Kammings, E. E. --- kamings, e. e., --- cummings, e e,
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Die gemäßigt agierenden völkischen Ideologen Hans Grimm, Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer und Wilhelm Stapel beeinflussten die bildungsbürgerlichen Eliten ihrer Zeit in einer Weise, die weniger distinguiert auftretenden völkischen Agitatoren verschlossen blieb. Thomas Vordermayer zeichnet die Karrieren der drei Erfolgsautoren zwischen 1919 und 1959 nach. Er zeigt, wie sie unter den politisch-ideologischen "Multiplikatoren" der deutschen Gesellschaft - vor allem den Professoren, Journalisten und Redakteuren - Deutungsmacht erlangten und wie sie sich bemühten, sich gegenseitig privat und öffentlich zu stärken und zu unterstützen. Durch die Auswertung bislang kaum genutzter, vielfach völlig unbekannter Nachlassmaterialien und unter Rückgriff auf netzwerkanalytische Instrumentarien eröffnen sich dem Leser ganz neue Perspektiven auf die ideologische Verführbarkeit des Weimarer Bildungsbürgertums sowie auf das Denken und Handeln völkischer Schriftsteller und Publizisten. Wie sie sich untereinander abstimmten und bestätigten, wie sie sich im "Dritten Reich" positionierten und wie sie ihren jähen Bedeutungsverlust nach 1945 mental verarbeiteten, ist noch nie so nuanciert und tiefgründig beschrieben worden, wie in dieser preisgekrönten Studie.
German literature --- Literature and society --- National socialism and literature. --- Right and left (Political science) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Grimm, Hans, --- Kolbenheyer, E. G. --- Stapel, Wilhelm, --- Literature and national socialism --- Literature --- Kolbenheyer, Erwin Guido, --- Karst, Sebastian, --- National Socialism. --- Völkisch movement. --- Weimar Republic. --- art criticism. --- historical network analysis.
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