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Radical Modernists

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The history of Partisan Review is recounted, with special attention to its relations with the Communist Party and Trotskyism, and the leadership of Philip Rahv and William Phillips. From the perspective of debates about literary modernism, the ideas of Trotsky, the intervention of the New Masses, and the careers of James T. Farrell, F. W. Dupee and Edmund Wilson are also surveyed.
University of North Carolina Press
Title: Radical Modernists
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The history of Partisan Review is recounted, with special attention to its relations with the Communist Party and Trotskyism, and the leadership of Philip Rahv and William Phillips.
From the perspective of debates about literary modernism, the ideas of Trotsky, the intervention of the New Masses, and the careers of James T.
Farrell, F.
W.
Dupee and Edmund Wilson are also surveyed.

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