Overview
- Engages with and challenges current critical thinking on the politics of the avant-garde
- Brings together poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests in a multidisciplinary approach
- Provides close readings in relation to social and economic contexts
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This book tests critical reassessments of US radical writing of the 1930s against recent developments in theories of modernism and the avant-garde. Multidisciplinary in approach, it considers poetry, fiction, classical music, commercial art, jazz, and popular contests (such as dance marathons and bingo). Relating close readings to social and economic contexts over the period 1856–1952, it centers in on a key author or text in each chapter, providing an unfolding, chronological narrative, while at the same time offering nuanced updates on existing debates. Part One focuses on the roots of the 1930s proletarian movement in poetry and music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Part Two analyzes the output of proletarian novelists, considered alongside contemporaneous works by established modernist authors as well as more mainstream, popular titles.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Words and Music
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Simon Cooper is a senior lecturer in further education. After leaving university, he worked as a freelance writer, publishing in titles including the Big Issue. He has acted as secretary of a housing co-operative in the North East of England and worked on community access to higher education courses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modernism and the Practice of Proletarian Literature
Authors: Simon Cooper
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35195-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35194-6Published: 24 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35197-7Published: 24 January 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35195-3Published: 20 December 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 338
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Twentieth-Century Literature, North American Literature, Popular Culture , US History, Political Philosophy, Cultural Theory