1960 - Al Filreis

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Résumé :
Al Filreis recasts 1960 as a turning point to offer a groundbreaking account of postwar culture. He examines an eclectic group of artistic, literary, and intellectual figures who strove to create a new language to reckon with the trauma of World War II and to imagine a new world.

Biographie:
Al Filreis is Kelly Family Professor of English, director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing, codirector of PennSound, and founder and faculty director of the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Modernism from Right to Left: Wallace Stevens, the Thirties, and Literary Radicalism (1994) and Counter-Revolution of the Word: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry, 1945?60 (2008), and he is the host of the podcast PoemTalk.

Sommaire:
Preface
Part I. Emerging from the Night of the Word
1. An Introduction to the Survivor: New Contexts for Genocide
2. Pain-Laden Rhymes: Challenges to Narrative and the Radical ?Writing I?
3. Openings of the Field: Deep Memory and Its Counterwords
Part II. The End of the End of Ideology
4. Absurd Judgment: Auden, Arendt, Eichmann, and the Kafka Revival
5. Oppose the Anti-Everything: Zero Art and the Hopeful Leap
6. Adjustment and Its Discontents: Aleatory Art vs. Cold War Deradicalization
7. Disaster Defies Utterance: Arts of the Unsayable
8. Thaw Poetics: Folk Revival, Radical Unoriginality, and the Old Word Witness
9. Abomunism: Wars Within Wars in American Poetry
10. Favorite Things
Notes
Index