Late Modernism : : Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America / / Robert Genter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History
• VerfasserIn: Genter, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

In the thirty years after World War II, American intellectual and artistic life changed as dramatically as did the rest of society. Gone were the rebellious lions of modernism-Joyce, Picasso, Stravinsky-and nearing exhaustion were those who took up their mantle as abstract expressionism gave way to...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction. A Genealogy of Postwar American Modernism
• Part I. High Modernism in America Self and Society in the Early Cold War
• Chapter One Science, Postmodernity, and the Rise of High Modernism
• Chapter Two Reconsidering the Authoritarian Personality in America: The Sociological Challenge of David Riesman
• Chapter Three Psychoanalysis and the Debate over the Democratic Personality: Norman Brown's Freudian Revisions
• Part II. The Revolt of Romantic Modernism Beatniks, Action Painters, and Reichians
• Chapter Four A Question of Character: The Dramaturgy of Erving Goffman and C. Wright Mills
• Chapter Five Beyond Primitivism and the Fellahin: Receiving James Baldwin's Gift of Love
• Chapter Six Masculinity, Spontaneity, and the Act: The Bodily Ego of Jasper Johns
• Chapter Seven Rethinking the Feminine Within: The Cultural Politics of James Baldwin
• Part III. The Challenge of Late Modernism
• Chapter Eight Rhetoric and the Politics of Identification Writ Large: The Late Modernism of Kenneth Burke, C. Wright Mills, and Ralph Ellison
• Conclusion The Legacy of Late Modernism
• NOTES
• INDEX
• Acknowledgments