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Writing the Good Fight - Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover, New)
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Writing the Good Fight - Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War (Hardcover, New)
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Monteath examines the international literature of the Spanish Civil
War across the entire range of the political spectrum, from
anarchism to nazism. Utilizing this approach he is able to
highlight the extraordinary creative potential of a period in which
political and aesthetic practice were almost inseparable. It is
widely recognized that there was an extraordinarily high level of
political commitment in the literature of the 1930s in general, and
of the Spanish Civil War in particular. Writers as well as the
general public seemed to interpret the world very much in political
terms, and they sought in political ideologies, such as fascism and
communism, the answers to the pressing problems of the age.
Monteath examines the fiction, non-fictional prose texts, poetry,
and drama of the period across the entire range of the political
spectrum to assess the impact of political commitment on
literature. While an opening chapter establishes the political
background to the war, subsequent chapters are structured around
the question of the relationship between literature and a
particular political ideology, moving from Right to Left across the
spectrum. Monteath confirms the inadequacy of the notion that the
Spanish Civil War was simply a war between two sides. He shows that
there are a number of themes which transcend political boundaries.
Beyond those, however, it is evident that the substantive interests
expressed in the literature of the war vary not only from one side
of the political spectrum to the other, but also within the two
opposing camps, and in particular within the Left. Monteath
examines these variations and the politically based reasons for
their existence in detail. An important work for all students and
scholars of the Spanish Civil War and the literature of the
twentieth century.
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