Primordial Modernism

Animals, Ideas, transition (1927-1938)

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Cathryn Setz, Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford) Setz, Cathryn (Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford

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Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine culture Tests the concept of ‘primordial’ modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught nationalismsProvides readings of Eugene Jolas’s creative and critical works that place him centre-stage in modernist studiesMoves between unpublished archival material, reception studies, and readings of overlooked authorsConsiders a wide range of modernist authors and artists as befitting to such a rich documentTouches on contemporary scientific discourse as an aspect of animal studiesThis adventurous study focuses on experimental animal writing in the major interwar journal transition (1927–1938), which contains a striking recurrence of metaphors around the most basic forms of life. Amoebas, fish, lizards, birds – some of the ‘lowest’ and ‘oldest’ creatures on earth often emerge at the very places authors seek expressions for the ‘newest’ and the ‘highest’ in art. Discussing works by James Joyce, Henry Miller, Gottfried Benn, Eugene Jolas, Kay Boyle, Bryher, Paul Éluard and more, Cathryn Setz investigates this paradox and provides a new understanding of transition’s contribution to twentieth-century periodical culture.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-05-26
Mått156 x 234 x 12 mm
Vikt345 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474484251

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Cathryn Setz is an Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Her work explores the junctions between modernist magazine culture and popular science, specifically around the ‘Eclipse of Darwinism’, ‘bad’ biology in 1920s America, and literary resistance to scientific racism. She is also Co-Editor of Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes’s Modernism (Penn State University Press, 2019), and a collaborative Selected Letters of Djuna Barnes project.

Cathryn Setz is the first scholar who dares systematically study a key modernist magazine (the famous transition) via its fantastic zoology. Animals like amoebas, lizards, fish, and birds function as uncanny attractors bringing out problematics of raw life and pre-verbal expression, Ur-myths of nonhuman forms of social life. In this brilliant and captivating book, Setz offers us a new Origin of Species of transatlantic modernism.