Analysis Of The Historical And Cul-Tural Reasons About Philip Rahv、William Phillips And Partisan Review

The New York Intellectuals, Jewish Americans and mainly lived in New York, wereAmerican aristocracies of talent in the cultural circles. They have been commenting with criticalwords on politics and literature, mostly published on the journal of Partisan Review, and beenactive in the American cultural stage for four or five decades. Philip Rahv and William Philips,important members of the New York Intellectuals, were founders of Partisan Review. They havebeen the editors for a long time. This paper mainly deals with the literary criticism of Rahv andPhilips and the journey of Partisan Review, revealing the general situation of development aboutthe Lift-wing Literature in profile.The paper includes four chapters. The first chapter gives a general view of the origin ofdoing the research, the current state of studies at home and abroad, and the role orientation of theNew York Intellectuals.The second chapter introduces their approximately similar growth environment of the NewYork Intellectuals, the founding background of Partisan Review, the aim of the publication ofnew Partisan Review and the starting point of the Philips and Rahv’s literary criticism. And then,the writer analyses the process and reasons, which makes the New York Intellectuals gatheraround Partisan Review, forms a group and builds their “Partisan Mind”.The third chapter explains the cause of the1stinternal division of the member of thePartisan Review, and how the Jewish intellectuals reflect upon the problem of “being” in theworld of general alienation. What’s more, the writer also checks from the synchronicresearching angle how Philips and Rahv kept and abandoned the New Criticism, which was atthe peak of the theory development in the forties and fifties of last century, and established theirstyle of Marxist Literature Criticism.The fourth chapter discusses the main reason why Philips and Rahv, who were in the samecamp, went by different roads eventually and the decisive factor leading the Partisan Reviewfrom past brilliance to ceasing publication. Meanwhile, it also examines the fusion andconfliction of values between Philips and Rahv.