Politics and the Novel During the Cold War
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4128-6290-5 (ISBN)
Starting with the high hopes generated by the Spanish Civil War, Caute then explores the god that failed pessimism that overtook the Western political novel in the 1940s. The writers under scrutiny include Hemingway, Dos Passos, Orwell, Koestler, Malraux, Serge, Greene, de Beauvoir, and Sartre. Strikingly different approaches to the burning issues of the time are found among orthodox Soviet novelists such as Sholokhov, Fadeyev, Kochetov, and Pavlenko. Soviet official culture continued to choke on modernism, formalism, satire, and allegory.
In Russia and Eastern Europe dissident novelists offered contesting voices as they engaged in the fraught re-telling of life under Stalinism. The emergence of the New Left in the 1960s generated a new wave of fiction challenging Americas global stance. Mailer, Doctorow, and Coover brought fresh literary sensibilities to bear on such iconic events as the 1967 siege of the Pentagon and the execution of the Rosenbergs.
David Caute is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, UK, and Henry Fellow at Harvard. A visiting professor at Columbia, NYU and University of California, Irvine, USA, his most recent work is The Dancer Defects: The Struggle for Cultural Supremacy During the Cold War.
Introduction Part 1: The Spanish Civil War 1. Commentary: The Spanish Labyrinth 2. Malraux: Days of Hope 3. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls 4. Dos Passos: Betrayal 5. Orwell: Homage to Catalonia 6. Koestler: Sentence of Death Part 2: The God That Failed 7. Commentary: The Soviet Trials 8. Beyond Darkness at Noon 9. Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev 10. Orwell: From Big Pig to Big Brother 11. Commentary: Totalitarianism, Ideology, Power 12. Sartre: History, Fiction and the Party 13. Commentary: Soviet Forced Labour Camps 14. Koestler: and the Little Flirts 15. Commentary: Fellow-Travellers 16. Greene: The Quiet American Part 3: History and Fiction in the Soviet Orbit 17. Commentary: The Socialist Realist Novel from War to Cold War 18. The Tragic Case of Vasily Grossman 19. Commentary: Collectivization 20. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago 21. Chukovskaya: Honour among Women 22. Commentary: Purge and Terror 23. The Iron Fist: The Trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky 24. Foreign Affairs: The Menace of Kafka 25. Germany Doubly Divided: Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson Part 4: Solzhenitsyn 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 27. The First Circle 28. Commentary: Stalin and Lenin in Soviet Fiction 29. From Cancer Ward to The Gulag Archipelago 30. Commentary: Bureaucracy, the New Class and Double Standards 31. Vladimov: Faithful Ruslan Part 5: The American Novel and the New Politics 32. Commentary: Fiction, the New Journalism, and the Postmodern 33. Mailer: The Armies of the Night 34. Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover Conclusion References and Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.08.2017 |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 498 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4128-6290-6 / 1412862906 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4128-6290-5 / 9781412862905 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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