Red Modernism by Mark Steven

Red Modernism by Mark Steven

Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.

Steven's audacious redefinition of modernist historiography ventures much further than previous attempts to read political inferences into post-imagist poetry. . It does so by viewing the Russian Revolution as a foundational event in the narrative of modern American verse. A much needed counter to ideological micro-criticism, Red Modernism unfolds on an ambitiously broad canvas, seeking to highlight the epic global backdrop to the poems containing history that so preoccupied Pound and his compatriots William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofsky. Red Modernism argues meticulously for the centrality of the communist ideal in the work of Pound, Williams, and Zukofsky.
—Literature and History

Mark Steven is a research fellow at the Centre for Modernism Studies in Australia, based at the University of New South Wales.

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ISBN 13	9781421423579
ISBN 10	142142357X
Title	Red Modernism
Author	Mark Steven
Series	Hopkins Studies In Modernism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Johns Hopkins University Press
Year published	2018-02-15
Number of pages	264
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