F O Matthiessen And The Politics Of Criticism
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F O Matthiessen And The Politics Of Criticism
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Author : William E. Cain
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1988
F O Matthiessen And The Politics Of Criticism written by William E. Cain and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America's leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William E. Cain studies Matthiessen's career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political contexts. He considers Matthiessen's many reviews and essays on literature and deals sympathetically, but critically, with Matthiessen's attitudes toward the Cold War as revealed in his memoir, From the Heart of Europe. Cain draws connections between Matthiessen's criticism and the influence of significant political movements like the Popular Front of the 1930s, the Progressive Party, and Henry Wallace's campaign for the presidency in 1948. Analyzing specific texts by Thoreau, James, Dreiser, and Melville, he confronts the difficult and highly contested relationships between literary criticism and politics, scholarship and the public sphere, pedagogy and social activism. He suggests that critics need to acknowledge the primacy of their political commitments and should proceed to teach and write accordingly. This argument, certain to prove a controversial one, will spark extensive debate and discussion about the theory and practice of intellectual work. All students and scholars of English and American literature, American studies, black studies, and American history will welcome this original and stimulating study, the first to treat Matthiessen in fully detailed social, historical, and political contexts. .
F O Matthiessen And The Politics Of Criticism
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Author : William E. Cain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988-01-01
F O Matthiessen And The Politics Of Criticism written by William E. Cain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-01 with categories.
F O Matthiessen Christian Socialist As Critic
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Author : Frederick C. Stern
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
F O Matthiessen Christian Socialist As Critic written by Frederick C. Stern and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Matthiessen succeeded in uniting critical formalism with political radicalism, Christian concerns with social egalitarianism, to make a major contribution to American literature and culture. As a major literary critic and distinguished teacher, his extraordinary output of critical works constitutes a crucial part of American intellectual development. Stern's compassionate study reveals now Matthiessen synthesized the opposing forces in his own ideas to interpret the art of literature. Originally published in 1981. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
F O Matthiessen S Literary Criticism
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Author : Judith Segel Goodman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1953
F O Matthiessen S Literary Criticism written by Judith Segel Goodman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1953 with categories.
The Responsibilities Of The Critic Essays And Reviews By F O Matthiessen Selected By John Rackliffe
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Author : Francis Otto Matthiessen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Responsibilities Of The Critic Essays And Reviews By F O Matthiessen Selected By John Rackliffe written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with American literature categories.
Turncoats Traitors And Fellow Travelers
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Author : Arthur Redding
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2009-10-08
Turncoats Traitors And Fellow Travelers written by Arthur Redding and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Cold War was unique in the way films, books, television shows, colleges and universities, and practices of everyday life were enlisted to create American political consensus. This coercion fostered a seemingly hegemonic, nationally unified perspective devoted to spreading a capitalist, socially conservative notion of freedom throughout the world to fight Communism. In Turncoats, Traitors, and Fellow Travelers: Culture and Politics of the Early Cold War, Arthur Redding traces the historical contours of this manufactured consent by considering the ways in which authors, playwrights, and directors participated in, responded to, and resisted the construction of Cold War discourses. The book argues that a fugitive resistance to the status quo emerged as writers and activists variously fled into exile, went underground, or grudgingly accommodated themselves to the new spirit of the times. To this end, Redding examines work by a wide swath of creators, including essayists (W. E. B. Du Bois and F. O. Matthiessen), novelists (Ralph Ellison, Patricia Highsmith, Jane Bowles, and Paul Bowles), playwrights (Arthur Miller), poets (Sylvia Plath), and filmmakers (Elia Kazan and John Ford). The book explores how writers and artists created works that went against mainstream notions of liberty and offered alternatives to the false dichotomy between capitalist freedom and totalitarian tyranny. These complex responses and the era they reflect had and continue to have profound effects on American and international cultural and intellectual life, as can be seen in the connections Redding makes between past and present.
Exceptional Violence And The Crisis Of Classic American Literature
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Author : Joseph Fichtelberg
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-24
Exceptional Violence And The Crisis Of Classic American Literature written by Joseph Fichtelberg and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is an interdisciplinary study of antebellum American literature and the problem of political emergency. Arguing that the United States endured sustained conflicts over the nature and operation of sovereignty in the unsettled era from the Founding to the Civil War, the book presents two forms of governance: local and regional control, and national governance. The period’s states of exception arose from these clashing imperatives, creating contests over land, finance, and, above all, slavery, that drove national politics. Extensively employing the political and cultural insights of Walter Benjamin, this book surveys antebellum American writers to understand how they situated themselves and their work in relation to these episodes, specifically focusing on the experience of violence. Exploring the work of Edgar Allan Poe, ex-slave narrators like Moses Roper and Henry Bibb, Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson, the book applies some central aspects of Walter Benjamin’s literary and cultural criticism to the deep investment in pain in antebellum politics and culture.
The Futures Of American Studies
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Author : Robyn Wiegman
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2002-10-21
The Futures Of American Studies written by Robyn Wiegman and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-21 with Education categories.
Originating as a proponent of U.S. exceptionalism during the Cold War, American Studies has now reinvented itself, vigorously critiquing various kinds of critical hegemony and launching innovative interdisciplinary endeavors. The Futures of American Studies considers the field today and provides important deliberations on what it might yet become. Essays by both prominent and emerging scholars provide theoretically engaging analyses of the postnational impulse of current scholarship, the field's historical relationship to social movements, the status of theory, the state of higher education in the United States, and the impact of ethnic and gender studies on area studies. They also investigate the influence of poststructuralism, postcolonial studies, sexuality studies, and cultural studies on U.S. nationalist—and antinationalist—discourses. No single overriding paradigm dominates the anthology. Instead, the articles enter into a lively and challenging dialogue with one another. A major assessment of the state of the field, The Futures of American Studies is necessary reading for American Studies scholars. Contributors. Lindon Barrett, Nancy Bentley, Gillian Brown, Russ Castronovo, Eric Cheyfitz, Michael Denning, Winfried Fluck, Carl Gutierrez-Jones, Dana Heller, Amy Kaplan, Paul Lauter, Günter H. Lenz, George Lipsitz, Lisa Lowe, Walter Benn Michaels, José Estaban Muñoz, Dana D. Nelson, Ricardo L. Ortiz, Janice Radway, John Carlos Rowe, William V. Spanos
The Responsibilities Of The Critic
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Author : Francis Otto Matthiessen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
The Responsibilities Of The Critic written by Francis Otto Matthiessen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with American literature categories.
God Fearing And Free
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Author : Jason W. Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
God Fearing And Free written by Jason W. Stevens and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with History categories.
Religion has been on the rise in America for decades—which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americans have always conducted their cultural life through religious symbols, never more so than during the Cold War. In God-Fearing and Free, Stevens discloses how the nation, on top of the world and torn between grandiose self-congratulation and doubt about the future, opened the way for a new master narrative. The book shows how the American public, powered by a national religious revival, was purposefully disillusioned regarding the country’s mythical innocence and fortified for an epochal struggle with totalitarianism. Stevens reveals how the Augustinian doctrine of original sin was refurbished and then mobilized in a variety of cultural discourses that aimed to shore up democratic society against threats preying on the nation’s internal weaknesses. Suddenly, innocence no longer meant a clear conscience. Instead it became synonymous with totalitarian ideologies of the fascist right or the communist left, whose notions of perfectability were dangerously close to millenarian ideals at the heart of American Protestant tradition. As America became riddled with self-doubt, ruminations on the meaning of power and the future of the globe during the “American Century” renewed the impetus to religion. Covering a wide selection of narrative and cultural forms, Stevens shows how writers, artists, and intellectuals, the devout as well as the nonreligious, disseminated the terms of this cultural dialogue, disputing, refining, and challenging it—effectively making the conservative case against modernity as liberals floundered.