The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940
ISBN: 9780199659586 | 0199659583
Format: PackagePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/19/2013
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The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of 'little magazines' and independent periodicals in Europe in the period 1880-1940. It demonstrates how these publications were instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European modernism and the avant-garde. Expert discussion of approaching 300 magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images, from France, Italy, Germany, Spain ... MORE
General Introduction: Modernity, modernism, magazines, Peter Brooker
France
Introduction, Peter Brooker
1. Performing writing: Le Chat Noir (1881-95), Le Courrier francais (1884-1913), Gil Blas illustre (1891-1903), Les Quat'z'arts (1897-8), Diana Schiau Botea
2. The 'little magazine' as publishing success : Le Scapin (1885-6), La Pleiade (1886-90), Le Mercure de France (1890-1965), Alexia Kalantzis
3. Between symbolism and avant-garde poetics: La Plume (1889-1905), L'Erm... MORE
Peter Brooker is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Culture, Film and Media, the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on contemporary writing, theory, and film is the author of Bertolt Brecht: Dialectics, Poetry, Politics (1989), New York Fictions (1996), Modernity and Metropolis (2004), Bohemia in London (2004, 2007) and A Glossary of Cultural Theory (1999, 2002). He has co-edited The Geographies of Modernism (2005), and was Co-Director of the AHRC funded Modernist Magazine Project (2005-2010). Most recently he is co-editor of Vols. 1 and 2 of The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines (2009) and of The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). He was a Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex (2008-10) and a Visiting Professor at the University of Birmingham (2009). He served between 2005 -2011 as Chair of the Raymond Williams Society.
Sascha Bru is Professor of literary theory at the University of Leuven. He has written extensively on the poetics and politics of the modernist avant-gardes, including Democracy, Law and the Modernist Avant-Gardes: Writing in the State of Exception (2009) and the co-edited volumes, The Invention of Politics in the European Avant-Garde - 1906-1940 (2006), Europa! Europa? The Avant-Garde, Modernism and the Fate of a Continent (2009) and Regarding the Popular: High and Low Culture in Modernism and the Avant-Garde (2011). He is a founder of EAM (The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies)
Andrew Thacker is currently Professor of Twentieth Century Literature and Director of the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. He co-founded the Northern Modernism seminar and is an editor of the journal Literature & History. He has published widely upon modernism, including Moving Through Modernity: Space and Geography in Modernism (2003), The Imagist Poets (2011), and the co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Modernisms (2010). He is currently Chair of the British Association for Modernist Studies.
Christian Weikop is Chancellor's Fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and has held research fellowships in the United Kingdom, United States, and Germany. He has written widely on twentieth-century German art for international art journals and museum publications, as well as for the projects ARTIST ROOMS (Tate/National Galleries of Scotland) and the Image of the Black in Western Art series (Harvard University). He is editor of the volume New Perspectives on Brücke Expressionism: Bridging History (2011) and founder of the Research Forum for German Visual Culture at the University of Edinburgh.
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