Inhaltszusammenfassung

This work is the full-length study of Joseph Freeman. It traces his literary and political biography as "New York Intellectual between 1920 and 1960, centering upon the question of his marginalization as one of the leading intellectuals of the literary left in the 1930x. Therefore, the study deals specifically with the mechanisms and functions of intellectual discourses during this period, which is characterized both by its cultural transition from modernism to postmodernism and by the litera...This work is the full-length study of Joseph Freeman. It traces his literary and political biography as "New York Intellectual between 1920 and 1960, centering upon the question of his marginalization as one of the leading intellectuals of the literary left in the 1930x. Therefore, the study deals specifically with the mechanisms and functions of intellectual discourses during this period, which is characterized both by its cultural transition from modernism to postmodernism and by the literary phenomenon of what Saul Bellow chooses as the title of this first novel "Dangling Man" (1944). This figure, bereft of religious and ideological certainty became a literary motif in American and European intellectual novels of the 40s and 50s, .....» weiterlesen» einklappen

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Klassifikation

DFG Fachgebiet:
1.15 - Literaturwissenschaft

DDC Sachgruppe:
Englische Literatur Amerikas