Filreis wonderfully moves from biographical elements, with the traumatic American exile of a young child after Austria’s Anschluss in 1938, to the intellectual and cultural agenda of Perloff after 1960, rightly underscoring the role of Perloff’s criticism of the left-leaning but formally mainstream authors of that period. The book’s last chapter, on the exceptional career and achievements of literary critic and theoretician Marjorie Perloff, is a perfect example of Filreis’s take on what changed in 1960, namely the end of deradicalization and the sudden return of avant-garde and radical politics (in the case of Perloff, the fight against anti-Jewish racism and misogyny in American academia). In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Ĥ24 Leonardo Reviews ogized in France) or reframing them in ways that helped to ignore their novelty (for instance by labeling them as purely subjective and individual or by narrowly stressing their formal achievements without taking into account the collective and political layers of many works).
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