John Dewey and Walter Lippmann: Knowledge, Aesthetics, and the Modernist Public Sphere -- Mina Loy: Irritation and the "Unprintable Word" -- Ezra Pound versus "The Perverters of Language" -- Langston Hughes, "Baddest" of the "Bad New Negroes" -- The Ends of Aesthetic Politics
Summary
"A study of modernist poets who, finding both support and stimulation in popular political theory, were committed to transforming their art in and through attempts to engage the evolving concept of the public sphere"-- Provided by publisher