| To Hell with Culture: Anarchism and Twentieth-Century British Literature Contributor(s): Klaus, H. Gustav (Editor), Knight, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0708318983 ISBN-13: 9780708318980 Publisher: University of Wales Press OUR PRICE: $33.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2005 Annotation: The ways in which anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism have made an impact in British 20th-century literature are explored in this collection of critical essays. This radical and thus far under-considered topic is up for review now that traditional paradigms of leftist and radical thought are under reexamination and the Marxist tradition is being seen as an imposition on a situation that was always more various and complex than typical descriptions have admitted. These essays investigate the theory that in the early 20th century there were several currents of anarchist thought, ranging from extreme radicalism to effective conservativism, and that a good deal of the thinking and writing that has been classed as Marxist is in fact more accurately described as anarchist. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| LCCN: 2005482113 |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.68" W x 8.78" (0.96 lbs) 214 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: 'To Hell with Culture': Anarchism in Twentieth-Century British Literature explores the ways in which anarchism and anarcho-syndicalism made an impact in British twentieth-century literature. traditional paradigms of leftist and radical thought are under re-examination, and the Marxist tradition is being seen as something of an imposition on a situation which was always actually more various and more complex than usual descriptions have admitted. currents of anarchist thought. Whether highly radical (as in Grassic Gibbon) or effectively conservative (as in Chesterton), a good deal of the thinking and writing that has been classed as Marxist was in fact much more fully informed by anarchist thought than has been realised. |