| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
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Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture.
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| Summary |
This 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 Éluard and more, Cathryn Setz investigates this paradox and provides a new understanding of transition's contribution to twentieth-century periodical culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Amoeba: figures of abstraction, surrealist influence and the revolution of the word -- Fish: evolving the artwork in James Joyce's 'Shem the Penman' (1927) -- Lizard: Gottfried Benn, 'the "dark" side of modernism' and transition's 'pineal eye' -- Bird: editorial flights with Eugene Jolas |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Literature, Experimental -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Experimental. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Setz, Cathryn, 1983- Primordial modernism. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019] 0748692177 (OCoLC)1044553273 |
| ISBN |
9780748692187 (electronic book) |
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0748692185 (electronic book) |
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9780748692194 (epub) |
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0748692193 (epub) |
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0748692177 |
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9780748692170 |
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9780748692170 (hardback) |
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0748692177 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9780748692170 |
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