Modernism And The Practice Of Proletarian Literature

Author : Simon Cooper
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030351953

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Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature by Simon Cooper Pdf

This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests (such as dance marathons and bingo). Relating close readings to social and economic contexts over the period 1856–1952, it centers in on a key author or text in each chapter, providing an unfolding, chronological narrative, while at the same time offering nuanced updates on existing debates. Part One focuses on the roots of the 1930s proletarian movement in poetry and music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part Two analyzes the output of proletarian novelists, considered alongside contemporaneous works by established modernist authors as well as more mainstream, popular titles.

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474415835

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Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question by Nick Hubble Pdf

This book argues that British proletarian literature was a politicised form of modernism which culturally transformed Britain.

Author : NICK. HUBBLE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474438741

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PROLETARIAN ANSWER TO THE MODERNIST QUESTION. by NICK. HUBBLE Pdf

Author : Nick Hubble
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474415842

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Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question by Nick Hubble Pdf

Analyses what makes an acting performance excellent, through a range of examples from world cinema

Author : Ben Hickman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031414909

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Art, Labour and American Life by Ben Hickman Pdf

This book examines labour in the age of US hegemony through the art that has grappled with it; and, vice versa, developments in American culture as they have been shaped by work’s transformations over the last century. Describing the complex relations between cultural forms and the work practices, Art, Labour and American Life explores everything from Fordism to feminization, from white-collar ascendency to zero hours precarity, as these things have manifested in painting, performance art, poetry, fiction, philosophy and music. Labour, all but invisible in cultural histories of the period, despite the fact most Americans have spent most of their lives doing it, here receives an urgent re-emphasis, as we witness work’s radical redefinition across the world.

Author : Mark D. Steinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717796

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Proletarian Imagination by Mark D. Steinberg Pdf

In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted to comprehend their rapidly changing world. Witnesses to wars and revolution, these men and women grappled on paper with the nature of civilization and the imperatives of ethical truth. In a strikingly original approach to Russian culture, Mark D. Steinberg listens to their words, which are little known today. The results of their literary creativity, he finds, were frequently not what the new Soviet order was expecting from its workers, despite its celebration of the notion of a proletarian art.Through insightful readings of a vast fund of lower-class writings, Steinberg shows that the authors focused above all on the uncertain nature and place of the self, the promise and dangers of modernity, and the qualities of the sacred in both their lives and their imaginations. Like their counterparts in the intelligentsia, these worker writers were ambivalent about Marxist ideology's celebration of the city and the factory and even about modern progress itself. Drawing on vast research, Steinberg demonstrates the texts' significance for an understanding of Russian popular mentalities, indeed for the very meaning, philosophically and morally, of these years of crisis and possibility at the end of the old order and the early years of the Soviet regime.

Author : Martin Travers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826490988

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European Literature from Romanticism to Postmodernism by Martin Travers Pdf

An anthology of key theoretical writings by the major representatives of the schools and movements of European literature. Each chapter in this book is devoted to one particular school of movement from within a body of literature, from romanticism, realism and modernism through to the literature of political engagement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Author : Christopher P. Hanscom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781684175321

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The Real Modern by Christopher P. Hanscom Pdf

"The contentious relationship between modernism and realism has powerfully influenced literary history throughout the twentieth century and into the present. In 1930s Korea, at a formative moment in these debates, a “crisis of representation” stemming from the loss of faith in language as a vehicle of meaningful reference to the world became a central concern of literary modernists as they operated under Japanese colonial rule.Christopher P. Hanscom examines the critical and literary production of three prose authors central to 1930s literary circles—Pak T’aewon, Kim Yujong, and Yi T’aejun—whose works confront this crisis by critiquing the concept of transparent or “empiricist” language that formed the basis for both a nationalist literary movement and the legitimizing discourse of assimilatory colonization. Bridging literary and colonial studies, this re-reading of modernist fiction within the imperial context illuminates links between literary practice and colonial discourse and questions anew the relationship between aesthetics and politics.The Real Modern challenges Eurocentric and nativist perspectives on the derivative particularity of non-Western literatures, opens global modernist studies to the similarities and differences of the colonial Korean case, and argues for decolonization of the ways in which non-Western literatures are read in both local and global contexts."

Author : Victor Erlich
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674580702

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Modernism and Revolution by Victor Erlich Pdf

Now that the political rhetoric can end, Erlich (Russian literature, Yale U.) examines the impact of the 1917 revolution on Russian poetry, criticism, and artistic prose. He looks at the flirtations with modernism of the early 20th century and compares the futurists, formalists, novelists, and short-story writers of the first decade of the new social and political order. Assumes no knowledge of Russian. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Anthony Dawahare
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498578745

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Tillie Olsen and the Dialectical Philosophy of Proletarian Literature by Anthony Dawahare Pdf

This study historicizes Tillie Olsen’s fiction in the context of the Depression-era proletarian literary movement in the United States and its philosophy of dialectical materialism. It argues that dialectical materialism informs both the form and content of her fiction.

Author : Joseph B. Entin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469606613

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Sensational Modernism by Joseph B. Entin Pdf

Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degraded but potentially threatening figures in need of supervision. Sensational modernists sought to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. The striking images these artists created, often taking the form of contorted or disfigured bodies drawn from the realm of the tabloids, pulp magazines, and cinema, represented a bold, experimental form of social aesthetics. Entin argues that these artists created a willfully unorthodox brand of vernacular modernism in which formal avant-garde innovations were used to delineate the conditions, contradictions, and pressures of life on the nation's fringes.

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351136

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Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism by Mark Steven Pdf

A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.

Author : Aleksandr Ivanovich Ovcharenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Socialist realism in literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3563403

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Socialist Realism and the Modern Literary Process by Aleksandr Ivanovich Ovcharenko Pdf

Author : Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696155

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The Modernist World by Allana Lindgren,Stephen Ross Pdf

The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume. The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

Author : Rocco Marinaccio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89056975923

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"For Labor who Will Sing?" by Rocco Marinaccio Pdf