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A Partisan View - Five Decades in the Politics of Literature (Paperback)
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A Partisan View - Five Decades in the Politics of Literature (Paperback)
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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 took up the fight for aesthetic modernism at a time when the
latter was fiercely contested by both the political left and the
right. In "A Partisan View," William Phillips gives a vivid account
of his own part in the magazine's eventful history. As the
magazine's current editor, Edith Kurzweil, notes in her new
introduction, many of the literary and political disagreements that
famously marked "Partisan Review"'s history originated in the
editors' initial adherence to a program of radical politics and
avant-gardism. Although this proved increasingly unworkable,
Phillips and Rahv, even from the outset, never allowed sectarian
narrowness to determine the magazine's contents. Over the decades,
"Partisan Review" published work by authors as far from radicalism
as T. S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens or from Marxist orthodoxy as
Albert Camus and George Orwell. In literature, its contributors
were as stylistically and intellectually varied as Saul Bellow,
Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Lowell and Isaac Bashevis Singer. In
short, "Partisan Review" featured the best fiction, poetry, and
essays of the 1940s and postwar decades. Beyond its literary
preeminence, "Partisan Review" was famed as the most representative
journal of the New York Intellectuals. Much of the quality of
"Partisan Review" came from Phillips own broad culture,
cosmopolitanism, and intellectual tolerance. As Edith Kurzweil
writes, "he kept trying to find a category of criticism' that might
enable us all to better come to grips with the complexities of our
ever-changing world." Now in paperback, "A Partisan View" will be
of keen interest to intellectual historians as well as literary
scholars.
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