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Late Modernism : Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Genter, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War
  • Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism
  • Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman
  • Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions
  • Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians
  • A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills
  • Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love
  • Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns
  • Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin
  • Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism
  • Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison
  • The legacy of late modernism.