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Archive of Against the Grain

    Verso Books
    29 August 2022
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    Cultural and Literary Theory: Verso Student Reading

    Our Cultural and Literary Theory reading for the academic year ahead: all 40% off until the end of September.

    Verso Books
    24 August 2022
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    Key Debates in Theory: Verso Student Reading

    The most pressing debates in left theory from 50 years of radical publishing.

    David Lau
    08 June 2017
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    Manual of War: on Bertolt Brecht’s War Primer

    Brecht considered War Primer part of “a satisfactory literary report on my years in exile,” as he wrote in a 1944 journal entry. Since this first English language reception of War Primer on the centenary of Brecht’s birth in 1998, what are we now to make of his poignant modernist epic of four-liner lyrics and scrapbook photos? Today, in our post-crash era, with its renewal of Marxism, Brecht the formalist can be freed from a series of postmodern qualifications. War Primer’s historical intervention can be seen in a new way today. With the far right politically relevant again, Brecht’s image-by-image analysis of social democracy, America, and fascism, which is the veritable heart of War Primer, possesses fresh relevance.

    Terry Eagleton
    03 December 2012
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    The Ballad of English Literature

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