Research Catalog

Title

Red modernism : American poetry and the spirit of communism / Mark Steven.

Author

Steven, Mark

Publication

• Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

viii, 254 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned--and aesthetically responsive--to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry--Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky--Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism's unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. 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"--

Series Statement

Hopkins studies in modernism

Uniform Title

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > United States
• Communism and literature
• LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
• POETRY / American / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism
• American poetry
• Modernism (Literature)
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 17-11404

ISBN

• 9781421423579
• 142142357X

LCCN

2017003427

OCLC

983640227

Author

Steven, Mark, author.

Title

Red modernism : American poetry and the spirit of communism / Mark Steven.

Publisher

Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Hopkins studies in modernism

Hopkins studies in modernism.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Research Call Number

JFE 17-11404