Foreign Language Books
1. Little Magazine World Form by Eric Bulson ; Columbia University Press
Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens to the world but, as Eric Bulson shows in Little Magazine, World Form, their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the development of literature and criticism in Africa, the West Indies, the Pacific Rim, and South America.
In addition to identifying how these circulations and exchanges worked, Bulson also addresses equally formative moments of disconnection and immobility. British and American writers who fled to Europe to escape Anglo-American provincialism, refugees from fascism, wandering surrealists, and displaced communists all contributed to the proliferation of print. Yet the little magazine was equally crucial to literary production and consumption in the postcolonial world, where it helped connect newly independent African nations. Bulson concludes with reflections on the digitization of these defunct little magazines and what it means for our ongoing desire to understand modernism's global dimensions in the past and its digital afterlife.
2.American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle : Art ,Protest and Cultural Transformation by Kirsten Macleod
In American Little Magazines of the Fin de Siecle, Kirsten MacLeod examines the rise of a new print media form – the little magazine – and its relationship to the transformation of American cultural life at the turn of the twentieth century. Though the little magazine has long been regarded as the preserve of modernist avant-gardes and elite artistic coteries, for whom it served as a form of resistance to mass media, MacLeod’s detailed study of its origins paints a different picture. Combining cultural, textual, literary, and media studies criticism, MacLeod demonstrates how the little magazine was deeply connected to the artistic, social, political, and cultural interests of a rising professional-managerial class. She offers a richly contextualized analysis of the little magazine’s position in the broader media landscape: namely, its relationship to old and new media, including pre-industrial print forms, newspapers, mass-market magazines, fine press books, and posters. MacLeod’s study challenges conventional understandings of the little magazine as a genre and emphasizes the power of “little” media in a mass-market context.
3.Little Magazines and African Literary Development by Mathias Iroro Orhero
This book devotes itself to the roles played by little magazines in developing Modern African Poetry from its earliest inceptions up till the present. For the first time, a panoramic study of little magazines across the whole corpus of African Poetic history has been carried out. The influences of these magazines are identified from their roles as propagandist mechanisms, as nursery beds for poets, as a forum between poets and readers, as catalysts to poetic criticism and as manifestoes for a particular tradition. Some of the little magazines studied in this research include L’Etudiant Noir, Claridade, Presence Africaine, The Drum, Black Orpheus, Transition, Staffrider, Okike, Kwani? and New Contrast. The book's findings show that, truly, little magazines are the nucleus with which African Poetry gained consciousness and attained maturation. This finding yields itself to certain recommendations as to the continuance of this little magazine tradition in the invention of future African Poetic canons.
4.Women Editing Modernism : Little Magazines and Literary History by Jayne E. Marek
For many years young writers experimenting with forms and aesthetics in the early decades of this century, small journals known collectively as "little" magazines were the key to recognition. Joyce, Stein, Eliot, Pound, Hemingway, and scores of other iconoclastic writers now considered central to modernism received little encouragement from the established publishers. It was the avant-garde magazines, many of them headed by women, that fostered new talent and found a readership for it. Jayne Marek examines the work of seven women editors -- Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson, Margaret Anderson, Jane Heap, H.D., Bryher (Winifred Ellerman), and Marianne Moore -- whose varied activities, often behind the scenes and in collaboration with other women, contributed substantially to the development of modernist literature. Through such publications as Poetry, The Little Review, The Dial, and Close Up, these women had a profound influence that has been largely overlooked by literary historians. Marek devotes a chapter as well to the interactions of these editors with Ezra Pound, who depended upon but also derided their literary tastes and accomplishments. Pound's opinions have had lasting influence in shaping critical responses to women editors of the early twentieth century. In the current reevaluation of modernism, this important book, long overdue, offers an indispensable introduction to the formative influence of women editors, both individually and in their collaborative efforts.
5.America Meet Modernism ! Women of Little Magazine Movement ;
Edited by Barbara Probst Solomon ; Great Marsh Press
The Little Magazine Movement is as significant a literary landmark as the 1913 Armory Show is to art. These founding women publishers were alert to social issues, though their emphasis was on modernism.
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