Diluting holy writ: from the 'men of 1914' to the beat generation. Issue 9 (1st September 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Diluting holy writ: from the 'men of 1914' to the beat generation. Issue 9 (1st September 2020)
- Main Title:
- Diluting holy writ: from the 'men of 1914' to the beat generation
- Authors:
- Stevenson, Guy
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: This essay explores the paradox between progressive and reactionary forces in inter-war European modernism through parallels between the London-based writers T.E. Hulme, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound, and between Pound and Lewis' avant-garde art group The Vorticists and the American pre-Beatnik Henry Miller. How did the artistic quest to respect and delineate difference lead writers like Pound and Louis-Ferdinand Céline towards a fascist politics that abhorred it? At the other end of the political spectrum, how do the utopian, radically humanist ideals of a writer like Henry Miller find expression through confrontationally anti-humanist language? The answers to these questions, I argue, shed unexpected light on the politics of the American counterculture after World War Two, a moment that is too often understood in unquestioningly progressive terms.
- Is Part Of:
- Textual practice. Volume 34:Issue 9(2020)
- Journal:
- Textual practice
- Issue:
- Volume 34:Issue 9(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 34, Issue 9 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 9
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0034-0009-0000
- Page Start:
- 1575
- Page End:
- 1598
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-01
- Subjects:
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism -- Periodicals
Criticism, Textual -- Periodicals
Semiotics -- Periodicals
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- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rtpr20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0950236X.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/0950236X.2020.1808300 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0950-236X
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8813.780460
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