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Modernist Writing and Reactionary Politics

By Charles Ferrall

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521793459, 9780521793452
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
901 kB (922626 bytes)
Pages
212\210
Time added
2016-11-09 05:02:34
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Description

Charles Ferrall argues that the politics of Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Lawrence, and Wyndham Lewis was a response to the separation of art from an increasingly industrialized society. Fascism became attractive to these writers because it promised to reintegrate art into society while simultaneously guaranteeing its autonomy. Yet with the exception of Pound and Yeats, these writers all finally rejected fascism, preferring instead to see the aesthetic as a sphere in permanent opposition to liberal democracy, rather than the basis for a new social order.

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