Late modernism : art, culture, and politics in Cold War America / Robert Genter.
| Author/creator | Genter, Robert |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010. |
| Description | viii, 375 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | The arts and intellectual life in modern America Arts and intellectual life in modern America. ^A707797 |
| Contents | Pt. I. High modernism in America : self and society in the early Cold War -- Science, postmodernity, and the rise of high modernism -- Reconsidering the authoritarian personality in America: the sociological challenge of David Riesman -- Psychoanalysis and the debate over the Democratic personality: Norman Brown's Freudian revisions -- Pt. II. The revolt of romantic modernism : Beatniks, action painters, and Reichians -- A question of character: the dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills -- Beyond primitivism and the Fellahin: receiving James Baldwin's gift of love -- Masculinity, spontaneity, and the act: the bodily ego of Jasper Johns -- Rethinking the feminine within: the cultural politics of James Baldwin -- Pt. III. The challenge of late modernism -- Rhetoric and the politics of identification writ large: the late modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison -- The legacy of late modernism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2010008114 |
| ISBN | 9780812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0812242645 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | NX504 .G46 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |