1st Edition

A Partisan View Five Decades in the Politics of Literature

By William Phillips Copyright 2004
324 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

Since its founding in 1937, "Partisan Review" has been one of the most important and culturally influential journals in America. Under the legendary editorship of William Phillips and Philip Rahv, "Partisan Review" began as a publication of the John Reed Club, but soon broke away to establish itself as a free voice of critical dissent. As such, it counteracted the inroads of cultural Stalinism and... Read more
1: History Remade; 2: The Center and the Fringes; 3: Growing Out of the Twenties; 4: The Thirties; 5: New Partisan Review; 6: Writers on the Left; 7: The New Talent; 8: The Painters; 9: The Forties; 10: A Charmed Circle; 11: European Connections; 12: The Big Time; 13: Cultural Freedom Abroad; 14: Cultural Freedom at Home; 15: Victims and Critics; 16: Discovering Europe; 17: An American in London; 18: Writers in the Fifties; 19: Realpolitik; 20: Writers and Politics; 21: The Sixties; 22: Friends and Arrangements; 23: Coexistence; 24: D-Day; 25: Then and Now

Biography

William Phillips