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1 online resource (436 pages) |
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Classic Criticism |
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Classic Criticism
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| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on notes; A new introduction -- Ideology and Commitment: A Personal Account; Foreword to the Second Edition; The politics and cultures of discord (1997); 1 Introduction; 2 War stories; 3 Literature and cultural production; 4 Class/culture/welfare; 5 Queers, treachery and the literary establishment; 6 Freedom and the Cold War; 7 Cultural plunder and the savage within; 8 Making a scene; 9 Reinventing Modernism; 10 Women writing: Sylvia Plath; 11 The rise of Left-culturism; 12 Intellectuals and workers; 13 The ways we live now |
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| Summary |
Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain is a landmark work in contemporary literary and cultural analysis. It offers a provocative and brilliant account of political change since 1945 and how such change shaped the cultural output of our time. It also looks at how and when literature intersects with other cultural forms - including€jazz and rock music, television, journalism, commercial and mass cultures -€and the growth of American cultural dominance. This edition includes a new foreword by the author |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Civilization
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English literature
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Literature and society
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Politics and literature
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056626
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441179135 |
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1441179135 |
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1283123037 |
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9781283123037 |
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9780826494757 |
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0826494757 |
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