The Partisan Review Anthology
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket.
Few literary journals have shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century with the audacity and influence of Partisan Review, and this landmark anthology distils decades of its most provocative and enduring work into a single, indispensable volume. Edited by William Phillips and Philip Rahv — the journal's founding co-editors — it gathers a constellation of the era's greatest minds, including T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, Robert Graves, Theodore Roethke, Bernard Malamud, Diana Trilling, and William Carlos Williams, among many others, presenting their essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism in a sweeping portrait of mid-century American intellectual life. The collection stands as a testament to Partisan Review's singular achievement: bridging the avant-garde and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, at a moment when such tensions were fiercely alive. Phillips and Rahv cultivated a forum where Marxist criticism met modernist literature, where Cold War anxieties collided with questions of artistic freedom, producing some of the most rigorous and passionate writing of the age. For readers curious about the ideas that forged the modern literary canon, this anthology remains an essential — and revelatory — document.
Author: William Phillips And Philip Rahv
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Macmillan, London
Genre: Anthology
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds and corners of jacket.
Few literary journals have shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century with the audacity and influence of Partisan Review, and this landmark anthology distils decades of its most provocative and enduring work into a single, indispensable volume. Edited by William Phillips and Philip Rahv — the journal's founding co-editors — it gathers a constellation of the era's greatest minds, including T.S. Eliot, George Orwell, Saul Bellow, Hannah Arendt, Robert Graves, Theodore Roethke, Bernard Malamud, Diana Trilling, and William Carlos Williams, among many others, presenting their essays, fiction, poetry, and criticism in a sweeping portrait of mid-century American intellectual life. The collection stands as a testament to Partisan Review's singular achievement: bridging the avant-garde and the political, the aesthetic and the ideological, at a moment when such tensions were fiercely alive. Phillips and Rahv cultivated a forum where Marxist criticism met modernist literature, where Cold War anxieties collided with questions of artistic freedom, producing some of the most rigorous and passionate writing of the age. For readers curious about the ideas that forged the modern literary canon, this anthology remains an essential — and revelatory — document.