eprintid: 10018711
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 587
dir: disk0/00/01/87/11
datestamp: 2014-06-20 12:43:54
lastmod: 2017-12-07 21:33:00
status_changed: 2014-06-20 12:43:54
type: thesis
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Thompson, Anne.
title: Partisans re-viewed.
ispublished: unpub
divisions: B14
keywords: Discourse analysis,Serials,Political theory
note: A very large insert 'Left Wing Parties and Organisations
USA 1900-60' (in a folder at the back of the thesis) was not scanned.
abstract: The following thesis is a case study, a history, of -a magazine,
Partisan Review, over a period of twenty years (1934-1954) treating it
as a series of texts together constituting a transforming discourse. A
discourse constructed in and against a discourse of Americanism, itself
constructed through an interplay with representations of Europe.
Partisan Review was initiated in 1934 within the institutional and
intellectual framework of the American Communist Party as an organ of
the John Reed Club. In 1937 formal links with the Communist Party were
severed and the magazine reappeared as nominally independent but with
clear Trotskyist sympathies. After a period of non-alignment without
any explicit political programme, an editorial in 1952 declared a neo-
Liberal and anti-communist support for "Our Country and Our Culture".
It is asserted that these shifts did not constitute radical breaks, but
were constructed gradually. The thesis attempts to make the discourse
and its process of transformation intelligible to the reader by mapping
the emergence and inter-relations of key concepts (including
Aestheticism, Alienation, National, Intellectual, Science.) It is
argued that each concept or element was defined both by its opposition
to an antithetical concept and its place in the discourse - by the
specific combination or articulation of the elements.
Three editorial texts from 1937, 1941 and 1952, are taken as exemplars,
momentary crystallisations of this transformatory practice, and each is
subjected to an analysis which attempts to unpick and to gloss its
changing component elements and the transforming articulations between
elements.
date: 1990
date_type: completed
oa_status: green
thesis_class: doctoral_open
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
pages: 460
institution: Institute of Education, University of London
thesis_type: Doctoral
citation:        Thompson, Anne.;      (1990)    Partisans re-viewed.                   Doctoral thesis , Institute of Education, University of London.     Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10018711/1/122078.pdf