Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements Volume 22

by T.V. Reed

Book Overview

T. V. Reed urges an affiliation between literary theory and political action--and between political action and literary theory. What can the "new literary theory" learn from "new social movements," and what can social activists learn from poststructuralism, new historicism, feminist theory, and neomarxism?

In striking interpretations of texts in four different genres--James Agee and Walker Evans's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Ralph...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520302338
• ISBN13: 9780520302334
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"