Overview
Terry A. Cooney traces the evolution of the Partisan Review - often considered to be the most influential little magazine ever published in America - during its formative years, giving a lucid and dispassionate view of the magazine and its luminaries who played a leading role in shaping the public discourse of American intellectuals. Included are Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv, William Phillips, Dwight Macdonald, F. W. Dupee, Mary McCarthy, Sidney Hook, Harold Rosenberg, Delmore Schwartz, among others.
Full Product Details
Author: Terry A. Cooney ,
Paul Boyer
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Edition: New edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.559kg
ISBN: 9780299107147
ISBN 10: 0299107140
Pages: 362
Publication Date: 30 September 2004
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""An excellent book, which works at each level on which it operates. It succeeds as a straightforward narrative account of the ""Partisan Review"" in the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine's leading voices--William Phillips, Philip Rahv, Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Trilling, and all the rest--receive their due. . . . Among the themes that engage Cooney . . . are: how they dealt with 'modernism' in culture and radicalism in politics, each on its own and in combination; how Jewishness played a complex and fascinating role in many of the thinkers' lives; and, especially, how ""cosmopolitanism"" best explains what the ""Partisan Review ""was all about.""--Robert Booth Fowler, ""Journal of American History"""
An excellent book, which works at each level on which it operates. It succeeds as a straightforward narrative account of the Partisan Review in the 1930s and 1940s. The magazine's leading voices--William Phillips, Philip Rahv, Dwight MacDonald, Lionel Trilling, and all the rest--receive their due. . . . Among the themes that engage Cooney . . . are: how they dealt with 'modernism' in culture and radicalism in politics, each on its own and in combination; how Jewishness played a complex and fascinating role in many of the thinkers' lives; and, especially, how cosmopolitanism best explains what the Partisan Review was all about. --Robert Booth Fowler, Journal of American History
Author Information
Terry A. Cooney, author of Balancing Acts: American Thought and Culture in the 1930s, is academic vice president of the University of Puget Sound.
