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Informationen zum Autor Robert Genter Klappentext "Late Modernism" remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Zusammenfassung Late Modernism remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War! tracing the combative debate among artists! writers! and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism Part I High Modernism in America: Self and Society in the Early Cold War One. Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism Two. Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman Three. Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown's Freudian Revisions Part II The Revolt of Romantic Modernism: Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians Four. A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills Five. Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin's Gift of Love Six. Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns Seven. Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin Part III The Challenge of Late Modernism Eight. Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison Conclusion. The Legacy of Late Modernism Notes Index Acknowledgments
