On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art
Title | On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art PDF eBook |
Author | Il-sŏng Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Art and revolutions |
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Art and Revolution
Title | Art and Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
One of the outstanding revolutionary leaders of the 20th century discusses questions of literature, art, and culture in a period of capitalist decline and working-class struggle. In these writings, Trotsky examines the place and aesthetic autonomy of art and artistic expression in the struggle for a new, socialist society.
Politics of Art
Title | Politics of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Zhiguang Yin |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2015-02-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004281789 |
In Politics of Art Zhiguang Yin investigates members of the Creation Society and their social network while in Japan. The study contextualises the Chinese left-wing intellectual movements and their political engagements in relation with the early 20th century international political events and trends in both East Asia and Europe. The Creation Society was largely viewed as a subject of literary studies. This research, however, evaluates these intellectuals in the context of Chinese revolution and elaborates their theoretical contribution to the Chinese Communist Party’s practice of “theoretical struggle” as a main driving force of ideological construction. As this study tries to demonstrate, theoretical struggle drives the ideological politics forward while maintaining its political vigour.
Leon Trotsky on Literature and Art
Title | Leon Trotsky on Literature and Art PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | Pathfinder Press (NY) |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Literature and Revolution [First Edition]
Title | Literature and Revolution [First Edition] PDF eBook |
Author | Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2018-02-27 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1787209733 |
Literature and Revolution, written by the founder and commander of the Red Army, Leon Trotsky, in 1924 and first published in 1925, represents a compilation of essays that Trotsky drafted during the summers of 1922 and 1923. This book is a classic work of literary criticism from the Marxist standpoint. By discussing the various literary trends that were around in Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917, Trotsky analyses the concrete forces in society, both progressive as well as reactionary, that helped shape the consciousness of writers at the time. In the book, Trotsky also explains that since the dawn of civilisation art had always borne the stamp of the ruling class and was primarily a vehicle that expressed its tastes and its sensibilities. “It is difficult to predict the extent of self-government which the man of the future may reach or the heights to which he may carry his technique. Social construction and psycho-physical self-education will become two aspects of one and the same process. All the arts—literature, drama, painting, music and architecture will lend this process beautiful form. More correctly, the shell in which the cultural construction and self-education of Communist man will be enclosed, will develop all the vital elements of contemporary art to the highest point. Man will become immeasurably stronger, wiser and subtler; his body will become more harmonized, his movements more rhythmic, his voice more musical. The forms of life will become dynamically dramatic. The average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx. And above this ridge new peaks will rise.”—Leon Trotsky
On Revolutionary Literature and Arts
Title | On Revolutionary Literature and Arts PDF eBook |
Author | Il-sŏng Kim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Arts |
ISBN |
Revolutionary Writers
Title | Revolutionary Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Emory Elliott |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 1986-02-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 019536497X |
Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people. Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be; and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of nearly all serious writers who would follow.