| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) |
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Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
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Literary criticism and cultural theory.
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| Contents |
THE SPACE AND PLACE OF MODERNISM The Russian Revolution, Little Magazines, and New York; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction, the Blood and Bones of Modernism; Chapter Two: "There is a difference between prose and poetry": The Russian Revolution in the Liberator; Chapter Three: Our Country: Mapping "These 'Colored' United States" in the Messenger; Chapter Four: "You can't go back, they'll cut your throat": The Failure of Nostalgia in the Dial; Chapter Five: The Exodus of the Little Review; Chapter Six: "Beauty in our slaughter-fold": the Gold-McKay Liberator |
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Chapter Seven: Conclusion, "So interesting and modern ... Her gesticulating hands show her origin"Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary pla |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Little magazines -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century
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Press and politics -- New York (State) -- History -- 20th century
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Little magazines.
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Press and politics.
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Public opinion, American.
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| SUBJECT |
Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 -- Foreign public opinion, American
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New York (State)
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Soviet Union.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136067785 |
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1136067787 |
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