Cathryn Setz

Primordial Modernism (eBook, PDF)

Animals, Ideas, transition (1927-1938)

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Produktbeschreibung

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine culture Tests the concept of 'primordial' modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught nationalismsProvides readings of Eugene Jolas's creative and critical works that place him centre-stage in modernist studiesMoves between unpublished archival material, reception studies, and readings of overlooked authorsConsiders a wide range of modernist authors and artists as befitting to such a rich documentTouches on contemporary scientific discourse as an aspect of animal studiesThis adventurous study focuses on experimental animal writing in the major interwar journal transition (1927-1938), which contains a striking recurrence of metaphors around the most basic forms of life. Amoebas, fish, lizards, birds - some of the 'lowest' and 'oldest' creatures on earth often emerge at the very places authors seek expressions for the 'newest' and the 'highest' in art. Discussing works by James Joyce, Henry Miller, Gottfried Benn, Eugene Jolas, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Paul Eluard and more, Cathryn Setz investigates this paradox and provides a new understanding of transition's contribution to twentieth-century periodical culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748692187
• Artikelnr.: 72430135

Autorenporträt

Cathryn Setz is an Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Her work explores the junctions between modernist magazine culture and popular science, specifically around the 'Eclipse of Darwinism', 'bad' biology in 1920s America, and literary resistance to scientific racism. She is also Co-Editor of Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism (Penn State University Press, 2019), and a collaborative Selected Letters of Djuna Barnes project.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Amoeba: figures of abstraction, Surrealist influence, and the Revolution of the Word
2. Fish: evolving the artwork in James Joyce's 'Shem the Penman' (1927)
3. Lizard: Gottfried Benn, 'the "dark" side of modernism', and transition's 'pineal eye'
4. Bird: editorial flights with Eugene Jolas
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index .