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| - | The [[New York Intellectuals]] were a group of American writers and literary critics based in [[New York]] in the mid-20th century. They advocated [[left-wing politics|left-wing]] politics but were also firmly [[anti-Stalinist left|anti-Stalinist]]. The group is known for having sought to integrate [[literary theory]] with [[Marxism]] and [[Socialism]] while rejecting Soviet [[Communism]] as a workable or acceptable political model. | + | The [[New York Intellectuals]] were a group of American writers and literary critics based in [[New York]] in the mid-20th century. |
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| - | Several New York Intellectuals were educated at the [[City College of New York]] in the 1930s, and many were associated with the left-wing political journals ''[[The Partisan Review]]'', ''[[Commentary (magazine)|Commentary]]'', and ''[[Dissent (magazine)|Dissent]]''. Writer [[Nicholas Lemann]] has described the New York Intellectuals as "the American [[Bloomsbury Group|Bloomsbury]]". Writers often identified as New York Intellectuals include [[Robert Warshow]], [[Philip Rahv]], [[William Phillips]], [[Mary McCarthy]], [[Dwight Macdonald]], [[Lionel Trilling]], [[Clement Greenberg]], [[Irving Kristol]], [[Sidney Hook]], [[Irving Howe]], [[Alfred Kazin]], and [[Daniel Bell]]. Many of the New York Intellectuals have been associated with [[The New School]] in New York. Some of them, Irving Kristol in particular, later became key influences in the [[Neoconservative]] movement. | + | |
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Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003, though it suspended publication between October 1936 and December 1937. It was founded by William Phillips and Philip Rahv. It grew out of the John Reed Club as an alternative to New Masses, the publication of the American Communist Party, but became stridently anti-Communist after Stalin. Many of its early authors were the children of Jewish immigrants from Europe. The journal reached its peak influence from the late 1930s to the early 1960s, but then gradually lost its relevance to modern American culture. Phillips died in September 2002 at age 94. The journal continued under his wife Edith Kurzweil until it ceased publication in April 2003.
In 1949, Partisan Review awarded George Orwell £357 for the year's most significant contribution to literature, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Classic stories and articles first published in Partisan Review:
- Saul Bellow's "Two Morning Monologues"
- two of T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"
- Leslie Fiedler's "Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey"
- Clement Greenberg's "Avant-Garde and Kitsch"
- George Orwell's "Such, Such Were the Joys"
- Delmore Schwartz's "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"
- Isaac Bashevis Singer's "Gimpel the Fool"
- Susan Sontag's "Notes on "Camp""
The New York Intellectuals
The New York Intellectuals were a group of American writers and literary critics based in New York in the mid-20th century.
Bibliography
- Bloom, Alexander, Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals & Their World, Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0-19-505177-3
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