Red Modernism - American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism

How did modernist poetry respond¿both thematically and technically¿to communism?

About the author

Mark Steven is a research fellow at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, based at the University of New South Wales.

Summary

Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Steven, Mark (Lecturer Steven
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781421423579
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2357-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism; Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Marxism & Communism