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Counter-revolution of the word : the conservative attack on modern poetry, 1945-1960 /
This book examines the story of the coalition of poets, editors, and politicians who, after the Cold War, attempted to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse, yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines the story of the coalition of poets, editors, and politicians who, after the Cold War, attempted to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse, yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. The author argues that although the antimodernists expressed their disapproval through ideological language, their hatred of experimental poetry was ultimately not political but aesthetic. He shows that an informal network of antimodernists was effective in suppressing or distorting the postwar careers of many poets whose work had appeared regularly in the 1930s. Insofar as modernism had consorted with radicalism in the Red Decade, antimodernists in the 1950s worked to sever those connections, fantasized a formal and unpolitical pre-Depression High Modern moment, and assiduously sought to de-radicalize the remnant avant-garde |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 422 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469606637 1469606631 |