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Workshops of Empire
Eric Bennett
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Description for Workshops of Empire
Paperback. Series: The New American Canon. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; CBV; JNM; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 525.
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, highminded and wellintentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of ... Read more
During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, highminded and wellintentioned scholars, critics, and writers from across the political spectrum argued that human values remained crucial to civilization and that such values stood in dire need of formulation and affirmation. They believed that the complexity of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
The New American Canon
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609383718
SKU
V9781609383718
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About Eric Bennett
Eric Bennett is an associate professor of English at Providence College in Rhode Island. He is the author of A Big Enough Lie, and his writing has appeared in A Public Space, New Writing, Modern Fiction Studies, BlackwellWiley’s Companion to Creative Writing, The Chronicle of Higher Education, VQR, MFA vs. NYC, and Africana. He lives in Providence, Rhode ... Read more
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