Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture

Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture
ISBN-10
0674981634
ISBN-13
9780674981638
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2017-09-18
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
Evan Kindley

Description

After the 1929 crash, Anglo-American poet-critics grappled with the task of legitimizing literature for public funding and consumption. Modernism, Evan Kindley shows, created a new form of labor for writers to perform and gave them unprecedented say over the administration of culture, with consequences for poetry’s role in society still felt today.

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