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Author Brinker, Felix

Title Modernity and the Periodical Press Trans-Atlantic Mass Culture and the Avant-Gardes, 1880-1920
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (267 p.)
Series Studies in Periodical Cultures Ser
Studies in Periodical Cultures Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Fleeting, Fast, and Everywhere: An Introduction to Periodical Modernity -- Keywords -- Acknowledgements -- Works Cited -- 2 Engineered Desire: The Smart Set, Mass Culture, and the Dispositif of Distraction -- Keywords -- 1 Distraction, Concentration: Mass Culture's Agency -- 2 Multiplying Effects: The Smart Set -- 3 Coda: Mass Culture's Gender -- Works Cited -- 3 Strolling the Page: The Flâneur Aesthetic of M'lle New York -- Keywords -- 1 Strolling the Page: Periodicals and the Flâneur
2 "More Parisian than Paris": M'lle New York, the French Avant-garde, and the Sexual Politics of Print Flânerie -- 3 A Flâneur's Tour of M'lle New York -- 4 Conclusion -- Works Cited -- 4 Montages of Modernity -- Keywords -- 1 At the Cinema: Max Brod's "Kinematographentheater" -- 2 At the Cinema II: Jakob van Hoddis "Kinematograph" and the Fragmentation of Experience -- 3 In the Magazine -- 4 The Art of Montage: Gottfried Benn's Poster -- 5 The Montage of Art: Gottfried Benn's Poster in Die Aktion -- 5 Headlines for the Avant-gardes: Mina Loy, Filippo Marinetti, and Kurt Schwitters -- Keywords
1 Marinetti, Loy, and Schwitters between Network Production and Global Announcements -- 2 Marinetti's Manifesto-Media Campaign: Two Different Audiences -- 3 Looking for the Modern Woman: Mina Loy in the New York Dailies -- 4 Old Paper, New Material: Kurt Schwitters' MERZ, "Anna Blume," and Re-cycling the Periodical -- 6 Scrapped: Fragments of Modernity in the Little Magazine Close Up and H.D.'s Scrapbook -- Keywords -- 1 Little Magazines and Scrapbooks -- 2 Close Up and H.D.'s Scrapbook -- 3 Conclusion -- 7 In and out of the Loop: American Scrapbooks, Print Capitalism, and the Rise of Modernity
Keywords -- 1 Toward the Scrap -- 2 Distribution, Disruption and Discarding -- 3 Houdini's Scrapbooks -- 4 Conclusion -- 8 The Perils of Print: Twentieth-Century Media Modernity and the Pauline Serial -- Keywords -- 1 Layered Texts -- 2 Film/Newspaper -- 3 Plots/Novels/Poetry -- 4 Scheduling/Moderating -- 5 High/Low -- 9 From the Christian Oracle to the Christian Century: Avant-garde Preaching -- Keywords -- 1 From the Christian Oracle to the Christian Century -- 2 Between the Elite and the Masses -- 3 Avant-garde Preaching, Liberalism, and American Literature -- 4 Conclusion
10 The Brownies and St. Nicholas: Agents of Modernity and Modern Childhood? -- Keywords -- 1 Entering the Marketplace: St. Nicholas -- 2 The Brownies and/in Modernized, Industrialized America -- 3 In Lieu of a Conclusion: The Brownies and The Brownies' Book -- 11 It Floats: Alice Beach Winter's Visual Narratives of Mother -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Progressive Reform: It Floats -- 2 The "Weekly Function" of Cleaning the Child -- 3 Educated Mothers, Clean Children? -- 4 Cleanliness, Class, and the Child: Complications and Contradictions
Notes Description based upon print version of record
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Form Electronic book
Author Mayer, Ruth
ISBN 9789004468269
9004468269