Little Magazine, World Form (Modernist Latitudes) - Softcover

Bulson, Eric Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231179774 ISBN 13: 9780231179775

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Eric Bulson is professor of English at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of Novels, Maps, Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce (2006).

Edition details

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231179774
• ISBN 13: 9780231179775
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352