Committed styles : modernism, politics, and left-wing literature in the 1930s /

'Committed Styles' offers a new understanding of the literature of the 1930s and its relationship to modernism, exploring the tensions between formal experimentation and political vision that lie at the heart of the politicised literature of the 1930s.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kohlmann, Benjamin, 1981- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Series:	Oxford English monographs.
Subjects:	English literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Modernism (Literature) > Political aspects. Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique. Modernisme (Littérature) > Aspect politique. LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. English literature English. Languages & Literatures. English Literature. 1900-1999 Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. 'Responsible Propagandists': I.A. Richards, T.S. Eliot, and Cambridge Experiment; 2. An Honest Decade: William Empson and the Uses of Poetry; 3. Between Communism and 'Purity' of Style: The Revolutions of English Surrealism; 4. Social Facts and Poetic Authority: The Political Aesthetic of Mass-Observation; 5. Bad Dreams: Edward Upward and Marxist Prophecy; Coda; Bibliography; Index