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viii, 9-192 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Note |
"A congress of American revolutionary writers ... held in New York city on April 26, 27, and 28, 1935."--P. 10. |
| Contents |
In the name of some heroes / Friedrich Wolf -- Writers' part in the struggle against war / Harry F. Ward -- Fascism and writers / Edward Dahlberg -- From Dada to Red Front / Louis Aragon -- Role of the writer in the Soviet Union / Matthew Josephson -- First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers / Moissaye J. Olgin -- Tradition of American revolutionary literature / Joseph Freeman -- What the revolutionary movement can do for a writer / Malcolm Cowley -- Communism and literature (p. 66-70) / Earl Browder -- Values of the revolutionary writer / Waldo Frank -- Writer as technician / John Dos Passos -- Worker as writer / Jack Conroy -- Revolutionary symbolism in America / Kenneth Burke -- Dialectics of the development of Marxist criticism / Granville Hicks -- Proletarian novel / Edwin Seaver -- Short story / James T. Farrell -- Proletarian poetry / Isidor Schneider -- Reportage / Joseph North -- Technique and the drama / John Howard Lawson -- Social trends in the modern drama / Michael Blankfort and Nathaniel Buchwald -- Proletarian literature and the middle west (p. 135-138) / Meridel Le Sueur -- To Negro writers (p. 139-141) / Langston Hughes -- Social and political problems of the Negro writer / Eugene Gordon -- Negro in recent American literature / Eugene Clay -- Writer in a minority language / Moishe Nadir -- Revolutionary press and the writer / Clarence Hathaway -- Contemporary publishing and the revolutionary writer / Henry Hart -- Publishing revolutionary literature / Alexander Trachtenberg. |
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Authorship -- Political aspects.
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Politics and literature.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Working class in literature.
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Social problems in literature.
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| Added Author |
Hart, Henry, 1903-
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