Anonymous Toil: A Reevaluation of the American Radical Novel in the Twentieth Century - Couverture souple

Block Editor In Chief, Alan A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0819185590 ISBN 13 : 9780819185594

Editeur : University Press of America, 1992

Synopsis

In this book the author explores the radical novel in the United States which has been identified with the writings produced during the early part of the twentieth century by writers associated with socialist and communist ideologies, whose productions advocated the overthrow of the capitalist system. Contents: The Tradition of Literary Radicalism; Conditions of the Radical Novel in the Twentieth Century: Social Inequality; The Appearance of the Modern Artist/Intellectual; The New Periodicals; Socialism; Proletarian Literature; World War I; The Russian Influence; "The Inferiority of the Radical Novel"; Some Exits; The Depression; Bourgeois Literary Theory; Dismissal of the Radical Novel; The Reunification of the Radical Novel; An Alternative Reality; Reading and the Twentieth-Century Radical Novel: A Pedagogy; Bibliography; Index.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Alan A. Block is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at the University of WisconsinóStout in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of America
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819185590
• ISBN 13: 9780819185594
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible