The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures by Barnhisel, Greg

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781350304536)

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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures by Barnhisel, Greg

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

$54.95
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures by Barnhisel, Greg

The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

$54.95
Format: Paperback
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Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like MFA programs, university literature departments, book-review sections of newspapers, publishing houses, non-governmental cultural agencies, libraries, and literary magazines as a way to understand works of the period differently.

Broad in both their geographical range and the range of writers they cover, the book's essays examine works of mainstream American literary fiction from writers such as Roth, Updike and Faulkner, as well as moving beyond the U.S. and the U.K. to detail how writers and readers from countries including, but not limited to, Taiwan, Japan, Uganda, South Africa, India, Cuba, the USSR, and the Czech Republic engaged with and contributed to Anglo-American literary texts and institutions.

Author: Greg Barnhisel
ISBN-10: 1350304530
ISBN-13: 9781350304536
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 07/25/2024
Pages: 456
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.92d
By Greg Barnhisel
By Greg Barnhisel
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Greg Barnhisel is Professor of English at Duquesne University, USA. He is an internationally known scholar of the history of the book, modernism and the cultural Cold War, with two monographs on those topics. In 2010, he edited an anthology entitled Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. He is one of the editors of the journal Book History and a series editor for the 'Studies in Print Culture and the History or the Book' series at the University of Massachusetts Press.

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