The Experience of Literature
Alan M. Wald
The Experience of Literature - The University of North Carolina Press - 456 pages
In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States.
9780807841693
14273419
86024922
Literary Criticism
HX92.N5
320.5320975
The Experience of Literature - The University of North Carolina Press - 456 pages
In contrast to other scholars who emphasize the affinity of the "New York Intellectuals" for literary modernism and its largely Jewish composition as its defining characteristics, Wald finds these traits to be secondary to the group's agonizing efforts in the 1930s and after to build a Marxist alternative to the official Communist movement. Wald presents an absorbing account of this misunderstood chapter in the history of literary radicalism and the Marxist intellectual tradition in the United States.
9780807841693
14273419
86024922
Literary Criticism
HX92.N5
320.5320975