A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature / Edition 1

A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature / Edition 1

by William Phillips
ISBN-10:
0765805529
ISBN-13:
9780765805522
Pub. Date:
10/31/2003
Publisher:
Transaction Publishers
ISBN-10:
0765805529
ISBN-13:
9780765805522
Pub. Date:
10/31/2003
Publisher:
Transaction Publishers
A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature / Edition 1

A Partisan View: Five Decades in the Politics of Literature / Edition 1

by William Phillips

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Overview

Since its founding in 1937, "Partisan Review" has been one of the most important and culturally influential journals in America. Under the legendary editorship of William Phillips and Philip Rahv, "Partisan Review" began as a publication of the John Reed Club, but soon broke away to establish itself as a free voice of critical dissent. As such, it counteracted the inroads of cultural Stalinism and took up the fight for aesthetic modernism at a time when the latter was fiercely contested by both the political left and right. In this work, William Phillips offers an account of his own part in the magazine's eventful history. As the magazine's editor, Edith Kurzweil, notes in her introduction, many of the literary and political disagreements that famously marked "Partisan Review"'s history originated in the editors' initial adherence to a programme of radical politics and avant-gardism. Although this proved increasingly unworkable, Phillips and Rahv, even from the outset, never allowed sectarian narrowness to determine the magazine's contents. Over the decades, "Partisan Review" published work by authors as far from radicalism as T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens or from Marxist orthodoxy as Albert Camus and George Orwell. In literature, its contributors were as stylistically and intellectually varied as Saul Bellow, Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Lowell and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In short, "Partisan Review" featured the best fiction, poetry and essays of the 1940s and postwar decades. Beyond its literary preeminence, Partisan Review was famed as the most representative journal of the New York Intellectuals.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780765805522
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Publication date: 10/31/2003
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 324
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1: History Remade; 2: The Center and the Fringes; 3: Growing Out of the Twenties; 4: The Thirties; 5: New Partisan Review; 6: Writers on the Left; 7: The New Talent; 8: The Painters; 9: The Forties; 10: A Charmed Circle; 11: European Connections; 12: The Big Time; 13: Cultural Freedom Abroad; 14: Cultural Freedom at Home; 15: Victims and Critics; 16: Discovering Europe; 17: An American in London; 18: Writers in the Fifties; 19: Realpolitik; 20: Writers and Politics; 21: The Sixties; 22: Friends and Arrangements; 23: Coexistence; 24: D-Day; 25: Then and Now
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