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Brings periodical culture and animal studies together to shed new light on modernism
This 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. 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.
Cathryn Setz is Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
Sommario
List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Amoeba: figures of abstraction, Surrealist influence, and the Revolution of the Word; 2. Fish: evolving the artwork in James Joyce's 'Shem the Penman' (1927); 3. Lizard: Gottfried Benn, 'the "dark" side of modernism', and transition's 'pineal eye'; 4. Bird: editorial flights with Eugene Jolas; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index .
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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.
Riassunto
This 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.
