Robert Genter

Late Modernism

Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America

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Produktbeschreibung

"Late Modernism" remaps the landscape of American modernism in the early decades of the Cold War, tracing the combative debate among artists, writers, and intellectuals over the nature of the aesthetic form in an age of mass politics and mass culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780812242645
• ISBN-10: 0812242645
• Artikelnr.: 30517642

Autorenporträt

Robert Genter teaches in the Department of History at Nassau Community College, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism
Part I High Modernism in America: Self and Society in the Early Cold War
One. Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism
Two. Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The
Sociological Challenge of David Riesman
Three. Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality:
Norman Brown's Freudian Revisions
Part II The Revolt of Romantic Modernism: Beatniks, Action Painters, and
Reichians
Four. A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C.
Wright Mills
Five. Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin's Gift
of Love
Six. Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns
Seven. Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James
Baldwin
Part III The Challenge of Late Modernism
Eight. Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late
Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison
Conclusion. The Legacy of Late Modernism
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments