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The pull of politics : Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway, and the left in the late 1930s
In the late 1930s, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway wrote novels that won critical acclaim and popular success: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. All three writers were involved with the Left at the time, and that commitment informed their fiction. Milton Cohen examines their motives for involvement with the Left; their novels' political themes; and why they separated from the Left after the novels were published. These writers were deeply conflicted about their political commitments, and Cohen explores the tensions that arose between politics and art, resulting in the abandonment of a political attachment.
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Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics
Different as they were as poets, Wallace Stevens, E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, and Williams Carlos Williams grappled with the highly charged literary politics of the 1930s in comparable ways. As other writers moved sharply to the Left, and as leftist critics promulgated a proletarian aesthetics, these modernist poets keenly felt the pressure of the times and politicized literary scene. All four poets saw their reputations critically challenged in these years and felt compelled to respond to the new politics, literary and national, in distinct ways, ranging from rejection to involvement. Beleaguered Poets and Leftist Critics closely examines the dynamics of these responses: what these four poets wrote—in letters, essays, lectures, fiction (for Williams), and most importantly, in their poems; what they believed politically and aesthetically; how critics, particularly leftist critics, reviewed their work; how these poets reacted to that criticism and to the broader milieu of leftism. Each poet’s response and its subsequent impact on his poetic output is a unique case study of the conflicting demands of art and politics in a time of great social change.
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The pull of politics : Steinbeck, Wright, Hemingway and the left in the late 1930s
\"John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, and Ernest Hemingway shared two significant similarities in the late 1930s. First, they wrote the most important American novels of 1939 and 1940: The Grapes of Wrath, Native Son, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, novels that enjoyed enormous critical acclaim and popular success. Second, they had recently gravitated to the Left or were already residing there when they wrote these novels, and their political commitment directly informed their fiction\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Hemingway's laboratory: the Paris in our time
Illuminates the development of Hemingway's themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer.In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway's story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in Hemingway's Laboratory, reveal a range of voices, narrative strategies, and fictional interests more wide-ranging and experimental than any other extant work of Hemingway's. Further, they provide a vivid view of his earliest tendencies and influences, first manifestations of the style that would become his hallmark, and daring departures into narrative forms that he would forever leave behind. Many of the chapters are pointillistic glimpses of violence--bullfights, a botched execution, the fleeting thoughts of the wounded on the battlefield. Others reach back into childhood. Still others adopt the wry, mannered voice of English aristocracy. Though critics have often read these chapters as secondary asides to the longer stories that constitute the commercial collection, Cohen argues that not only do the vignettes merit consideration as a unit unto themselves, but that they exhibit a plethora of styles and narrative gambits that show Hemingway at his most versatile.The final section examines in detail the individual chapters of in our time, their historical origins, their drafts, themes, and styles. The result is an account of what is arguably Hemingway's most crucial formative period.
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The Morgan Loans, Baku Oil, and Woodrow Wilson: How Valid Were John Dos Passos's \Claims in 1919?\
This essay examines the validity of three political claims in John Dos Passos's novel, 1919: that the Morgan loans forced the United States into World War I; that \"oil was trumps\" at the Peace Conference; and that President Wilson was \"trimmed\" by Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, destroying his liberal peace objectives.
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Robert Jordan's (and Ernest Hemingway's) 'True Book': Myths and Moral Quandaries in For Whom the Bell Tolls
Several times in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, the protagonist Robert Jordan thinks about the \"true book\" he will write after the Spanish Civil War (SCW) ends. The immediate answers are textual and can be found in Jordan's experiences as a partizan and in what he's learned about the war in his close dealings with the Soviets, who were covertly running it and who strongly influenced the Republican government.1 But historical and biographical contexts are equally important because Jordan is a projection of his author, and the novel aims to correct misrepresentations and replace myths about the war and the Loyalists with disillusioning truths- misrepresentations the author not only knew about but repeated and defended in his journalism and previous fiction and drama about the war. Hemingway also aimed at another kind of truth in the novel: the truths of moral ambiguity in military action. [...]before we turn to Jordan's experiences, we must briefly consider Hemingway's. When Hemingway began writing For Whom the Bell Tolls on 15 February 1939, Barcelona had already fallen to Franco's forces, and six weeks later the SCW itself ended with the fall of Madrid. [...]unlike his earlier writing about the war-the 31 news dispatches for NANA (Watson, Introduction 4), the 18 magazine articles for Ken and other magazines, the 5 short stories and the play The Fifth Column-nearly all of this new novel came into being when the war was over, when whatever he chose to reveal about it could no longer damage the...
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Hemingway's laboratory : the Paris In our time
Illuminates the development of Hemingway's themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer.In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris.Titled in our time , the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway's story collection In Our Time.
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Vagueness and Ambiguity in Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home': Two Puzzling Passages
None of this is particularly new, but a changed Krebs sees it with new eyes. [...] his dilemma; conform, lie, and assimilate, or stay aloof, try to maintain some shred of integrity, and suffer loneliness.
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