However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet ...

However, after World War II, an assertive American literary establishment repurposed literary modernism to boost the cultural prestige of the United States in the Cold War and to contest Soviet ...

A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World ...