Forthcoming in Fall 2003
From Transaction Publishers
A Partisan View
Five Decades in the
Politics of Literature
William
Phillips
With a new introduction
by
Edith Kurzweil
0-7658-0552-9 (Paper) October 2003 323 pp. $2 1.95/£18.50
Since its founding in 1937,
Partisan Review
has been one of the
most important and culturally influential journals in America.
Under the legendary editorship of Philip Rahv and William
Phillips,
Partisan Review
began as a publication of the John Reed
Club, but soon broke away to establish itself as a free voice of
critical dissent. It has remained such from the start.
Partisan Review
counteracted the inroads of cultural Stalinism
and took up the fight for aesthetic modernism at a time when
the latter was fiercely contested by both the left and the right. In
A Partisan View,
William Phillips gives a vivid account of his
own part in the magazine's eventful history.
As the magazine's current editor Edith Kurzweil notes in her
new introduction, most of the literary and political disagree–
ments that famously marked
Partisan Review's
history originated
in the editors' initial adherence to a program of radical politics
and avant-gardism. This tide will be of interest to intellectual
historians and literary scholars.
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