[PDF.21xj] Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

Counter-revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945-1960

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 | #2384348 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2008-03-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  1.30 x6.59 x9.31l,1.71 | File type: PDF | 448 pages

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||10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Please don't make it new|By Paul A. Baker|Counter-revolution of the Word explores in great depth the antimodernist literary movement of the mid 20th century. Alan Filreis, author of Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, & Literary Radicalism, here investigates the question: Why did American conservatives react so strongly against modernism?

I| |A penetrating historical and sociological study comparable to now-classic books. . . . Filreis provides a vivid lineage for a literary culture that promotes anti-intellectualism in the pursuit of 'core values.'--Boston ||

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During the Cold War an unlikely coalition of poets, editors, and politicians converged in an attempt to discredit--if not destroy--the American modernist avant-garde. Ideologically diverse yet willing to bespeak their hatred of modern poetry through the rhetoric of anticommunism, these "anticommunist antimodernists," as Alan Filreis dubs them, joined associations such as the League for Sanity in Poetry to decry the modernist "conspiracy" against form and language. In ...

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