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The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of ''little magazines'' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book contains forty-four original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, completely reshaping our understanding of the construction and emergence of modernism. The chapters are organised into thirteen sections, each with a contextual introduction by the editors, and consider key themes in the landscape of North American modernism such as: ''free verse''; drama and criticism; regionalism; exiles in Europe; the Harlem Renaissance; and radical politics. In incisive critical essays we learn of familiar ''little magazines'' such as Poetry, Others, transition, and

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masses of literary-historical and bibliographical information compiled ... [the] introductions to the various sections are crisp and informative. * Fiona Green, Times Literary Supplement *

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PART I TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT; PART II THE METROPOLIS, REGIONALISM, CANADA, AND EUROPE; PART III THE RADICAL DECADES

The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines Volume II North America 18941960 Oxford Critical Cultural History of Modernist Magazines

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 11/24/2016 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780198778424, 978-0198778424
      ISBN10: 0198778422

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The second of three volumes charting the history of the Modernist Magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection offers the first comprehensive study of the wide and varied range of ''little magazines'' which were so instrumental in introducing the new writing and ideas that came to constitute literary and cultural modernism. This book contains forty-four original essays on the role of periodicals in the United States and Canada. Over 120 magazines are discussed by expert contributors, completely reshaping our understanding of the construction and emergence of modernism. The chapters are organised into thirteen sections, each with a contextual introduction by the editors, and consider key themes in the landscape of North American modernism such as: ''free verse''; drama and criticism; regionalism; exiles in Europe; the Harlem Renaissance; and radical politics. In incisive critical essays we learn of familiar ''little magazines'' such as Poetry, Others, transition, and

      Trade Review
      masses of literary-historical and bibliographical information compiled ... [the] introductions to the various sections are crisp and informative. * Fiona Green, Times Literary Supplement *

      Table of Contents
      PART I TRADITION AND EXPERIMENT; PART II THE METROPOLIS, REGIONALISM, CANADA, AND EUROPE; PART III THE RADICAL DECADES

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