Author | Glicksberg, Charles I. author |
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Title | Literature and Society [electronic resource] / by Charles I. Glicksberg |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1972 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2770-0 |
Descript | 274 p. online resource |
I: Asocial Literature -- A. Expressionism and the Aesthetics of the Absurd -- I. The Asocial Writer -- II. A Trinity of the Absurd -- B. The Revolt Against Society: Anarchism, Alienation, the Beat Ethic and Madness -- III. The Individual versus Society -- IV. Revolt and Madness -- II: The Literature Of Social Criticism -- A. The Voice of Social Criticism -- V. The Problem of Definition -- VI. Shaw the Social Prophet -- VII. The Social Conscience of the Thirties -- VIII. The Social Criticism of John Dos Passos -- IX. The Moral Commitment of John Steinbeck -- X. The Socioeconomic Motif in the Literature of the Angry Young Men -- B. The Literature of Social Protest -- XI. The Call of Conscience -- XII. The Nemesis of War -- XIII. The Atomic Holocaust -- XIV. The Kingdom of Nightmare and Death -- III: The Literature of Social Commitment -- XV. The Politics of the Writer -- XVI. Ignazio Silone: the Revolutionary Turned Saint -- XVII. The Epic Theater of Bertolt Brecht -- XVIII. The Cult of Socialist Realism -- IV: Conclusion -- XIX. Conclusion