Transatlantic Avant-Gardes : : Little Magazines and Localist Modernism / / Eric White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: White, Eric,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations

Provides an alternative account of the modernist transatlanticTransatlantic Avant-Gardes offers a revisionary account of the evolution of twentieth-century modernism. Complimenting recent studies of modernist expatriates, Eric White explores new points of contact between European and American avant-gardes to place ‘located’ figures such as William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Jean Toomer, and Alfred Kreymborg back into the 'global design' of literary modernism. Focusing on artist-run 'little magazines' (including Others, Contact, The Little Review, Blast, The Dial, Fire!!, and Pagany) and selected fine press publications and mainstream periodicals, White also reconsiders the boundaries that traditionally divide modernist literature into 'exile' and 'localist', or 'regionalist' and 'cosmopolitan', factions. Thus, the book proposes a version of localist modernism that prioritises issues of geographic and textual 'location' to deliver a 'networked' approach to American modernism in the transatlantic context. Combining literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism, Transatlantic Avant-Gardes provides a new reading of the specialised literary networks that interrogated the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identity in the modernist transatlantic. Key Features:Provides a new account of the literary avant-gardes that questioned the relationship between geographic place, textual space and national identityComplements modernist studies of American expatriatesCombines literary-historical, textual, and cultural criticism to deliver a ‘networked’ reading of American modernism in the transatlantic contextProposes a version of ‘localist modernism’ that prioritises issues of geographic and textual ‘location’ in transnational literary studies

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and Notes on Sources -- Prologue -- 1. Contra Mundum: Others and the Transatlantic Village -- 2. The Vortex of the Page: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Wyndham Lewis and the Modernist Problem of Place -- 3. ‘Backgrounds and Extensions’: The Ascent of Localist Modernism -- 4. Location, Location, Location: America, Relativity and ‘the New Science of Advertising’ -- 5. Secessions and Symposia: American Identity and Transatlantic Colour Lines in Modernist Magazines -- 6. New Localism, Late Modernism and America’s Unfi nished Spaces -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index