The Space and Place of Modernism The Little Magazine in New York |
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| Author:
| McKible, Adam |
| Series title: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-86103-8 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $55.95 |
Book Description:
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This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly...
More DescriptionThis book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties (The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism.