TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alan M.Wald
TI  - The Experience of Literature
SN  - 9780807841693
AV  - HX92.N5 
U1  - 320.5320975 
PB  - The University of North Carolina Press
KW  - Literary Criticism
N2  - 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
ER  -