Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism

by Mark Steven and Mark Steven

How did modernist poetry respond--both thematically and technically--to communism?

In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned--and aesthetically responsive--to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142357X
• ISBN13: 9781421423579
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher