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Counter-revolution of the word : the conservative attack on modern poetry, 1945-1960 / by Alan Filreis.
LIBRA PS310.P6 F56 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Filreis, Alan, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Politics and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Politics and literature.
- Conservatism and literature.
- History.
- United States.
- Conservatism and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Modernism (Literature)--United States.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 422 pages ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Counterrevolution of the word
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part I The Fifties' Thirties
- 1 Better Rethink Your Aesthetics 3
- 2 The Revolt against Revolt 31
- 3 Guilty Are Those Who Are Punished 55
- 4 Repressive Rereadings 80
- 5 An Underground of the Unpublishable 94
- 6 Anti-Anticommunist Poetics 119
- Part II Anticommunist Antimodernism
- 7 Poetry in the Hour of Need 161
- 8 Invasion of the Modernists 179
- 9 Deep Pinks, Medium Pinks, Door Openers 209
- 10 Hard Times in Xanadu 231
- 11 Lyricism, Freedom, and Art Education 243
- 12 Formlessness Is Godlessness 268
- 13 The Good Grammar of Citizenship 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-405) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780807831625
- 080783162X
- OCLC:
- 159821975
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