1st Edition
Literary Integrity And Political Action The Public Argument Of James T. Farrell
By Kathleen Farrell
Copyright 2000
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is about the story of James T. Farrell's role in the debate over the relationship between literature and politics during the 1930s. It is useful for American literary and intellectual history, American Left, and rhetoric and communication scholars interested in political controversy. .
Polemics -- Preface -- Introduction: Independent Voices and American Radicalism -- Growing Up in Chicago -- Farrell Comes of Age -- Your Word Is Revolution -- Fighting Alone -- A Note on Literary Criticism: 1936 -- Looking for Answers: Trotsky and the Moscow Trials -- Epilogue: Shattered Dreams and the Cold War
