Committed Styles - Modernism, Politics, and Left-Wing Literature in the 1930s

Zusatztext Kohlmann's prose is consistently lucid and precise ... Committed Styles challenges dominant conceptions of interwar literature. It opens the way for a more generous, diverse, and challenging view of the decade and a renewed engagement with political literature more generally. Scholarly, perceptive, and carefully argued, it deserves to be widely read. Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Kohlmann is Assistant Professor of English at Freiburg University, Germany, having previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent articles have been published in ELH, PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, and Textual Practice. Klappentext Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism, exploring the tensions between formal experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of the politicised literature of the 1930s. Zusammenfassung Committed Styles offers a new understanding of the literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism, exploring the tensions between formal experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of the politicised literature of the 1930s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: 'Responsible Propagandists': I. A. Richards, T. S. Eliot, and Cambridge Experiment 2: An Honest Decade: William Empson and the Uses of Poetry 3: Between Communism and 'Purity' of Style: The Revolutions of English Surrealism 4: Social Facts and Poetic Authority: The Political Aesthetic of Mass-Observation 5: Bad Dreams: Edward Upward and Marxist Prophecy Coda Bibliography

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• Authors: Benjamin Kohlmann, Benjamin (Assistant Professor Kohlmann, Kohlmann Benjamin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780198715467
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871546-7
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form