Red Modernism
american poetry and the spirit of communism
$116.46
- Hardcover
264 pages
- Release Date
14 December 2017
Summary
In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned-and aesthetically responsive-to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781421423579 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 142142357X |
| Series: | Hopkins Studies in Modernism |
| Author: | Mark Steven |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Imprint: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 264 |
| Release Date: | 14 December 2017 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Steven’s audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry… It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.—Literature and History
About The Author
Mark Steven
Mark Steven is a research fellow at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, based at the University of New South Wales.
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