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Discusses the ways in which Joyce Cary wove political symbolism into his final three novels.

Britt, Theron. "Literature and Politics: Same Difference?" College Literature 23, No. 2 (June 1996): 171-76.

Reviews three works on politics and literature.

Brown, Clarence. "Into the Heart of Darkness: Mandelstam's 'Ode to Stalin'." Slavic Review XXVI, No. 4 (December 1967): 584-604.

Examines the events that led up to Osip Mandelstam's composition of his "Ode to Stalin".

Bryant, Jerry H. "John A. Williams: The Political Use of the Novel." Critique XVI, No. 3 (1975): 81-100.

Surveys political elements in the novels of John A. Williams.

Crick, Bernard. Essays on Politics and Literature. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1989, 259 p.

Collection of essays on politics and literature.

Edwards, Jorge. "Chilean Writing after the Coup." Partisan Review 57, No. 3 (Summer 1990): 378-84.

Explores writing in Chile after the military coup of September 1973.

Eliot, T. S. 'The Literature of Politics." In To Criticize the Critic and Other Writings, pp. 136-44. London: Faber and Faber, 1965.

Lecture originally delivered at a literary luncheon arranged by the London Conservative Union in 1955; Eliot discusses the literature of conservatism.

Felstiner, John. "Poetry and Political Experience: Denise Levertov." In Coming to Light: American Women Poets in the Twentieth Century, edited by Diane Wood Middlebrook and Marilyn Yalom, pp. 138-44. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1985.

Explains the poetic and political philosophy of poet Denise Levertov.

Gass, William H., and Lorin Cuoco, eds. The Writer in Politics. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996, 191 p.

Collection of essays and panel discussions by noted writers presented at a conference at Washington University in 1992.

Groman, George L. "W. A. White's Political Fiction: A Study in Emerging Progressivism." Midwest Quarterly VIII, No. 1 (October 1966): 79-93.

Examines the larger impact of William Allen White's progressive political stance.

Gross, Seymour L., and Eileen Bender. "History, Politics, and Literature: The Myth of Nat Turner." American Quarterly XXIII, No 4 (October 1971): 487-518.

Confronts critics of William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, arguing that Turner is a mythic figure of symbolic meaning rather than a historical reality.

Kucich, John. "Postmodern Politics: Don DeLillo and the Plight of the White Male Writer." Michigan Quarterly Review XXVII, No. 2 (Spring 1988): 328-41.

Contends that DeLillo has consistently infused his works with political issues despite their lack of overt ideology.

Lee, L. L. "Bend Sinister. Nabokov's Political Dream." Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 8, No. 2 (Spring 1987): 193-203.

Discusses Nabokov's Bend Sinister as an exploration of political and personal devolution into madness.

Nelson, Harland S. "Steinbeck's Politics Then and Now." Antioch Review XXVII, No. 1 (Spring 1967): 118-33.

Contrasts Steinbeck's political stance in his early novel The Grapes of Wrath with that of his later novel The Winter of Our Discontent, concluding that both novels contain elements of radicalism and conservatism.

Nyce, Benjamin. "Joyce Cary's Political Trilogy: The Atmosphere of Power." Modern Language Quarterly 32, No. 1 (March 1971): 89-106.

Describes "the atmosphere of political power" as portrayed in Cary's novel trilogy, notably, the "confusion, mistrust, violence, and enthusiasm which permeates the world of a man who uses political power like an artist."

Ogunghesan, Kolawole. "The Political Novels of Peter Abrahams." Phylon 34, No. 4 (December 1973): 419-32.

Examines Abrahams' theme of spiritual freedom as a means of achieving social integration and political equality.

Rowse, A. L. "The Contradictions of George Orwell." Contemporary Review 241, No. 1402 (October 1982): 186-94.

Finds in Orwell's political ideology a "restrictive Puritanism."

Siddiq, Muhammad. "The Contemporary Arabic Novel in Perspective." World Literature Today 60, No. 2 (Spring 1986): 206-11.

Notes that contemporary Arabic literature is never "entirely divorced from politics."

Wilding, Michael. "The Politics of Nostromo." Essays in Criticism XVI, No. 4 (October 1966): 441-56.

Argues that Conrad's novel Nostromo is not explicitly political, but that instead Conrad posited politics as one of many means to human corruption.

Williams, C. E. "Writers and Politics: Some Reflections on a German Tradition." Journal of European Studies 6, No. 21 (March 1976): 75-99.

Presents an overview of political theory as represented in the German literary and intellectual tradition.

Winter, Helmut. "A Note on History and Politics in Recent German Drama." Modern Drama XIII, No. 3 (December 1970): 247-53.

Explores political theory and historical events in post-World War II German drama.