The Space and Place of Modernism: The Little Magazine in New York (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

This book examines reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties ( The Liberator, The Messenger, The Little Review, and The Dial ) in order to analyze some of the ways modernist writers negotiate the competing demands of aesthetics, political commitment and race. Re-examining interconnections among such superficially disparate phenomena as the Harlem Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, modernism and Leftist politics, this book rightly emphasizes the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism. Introduction, The Blood And Bones Of Modernism -- There Is A Difference Between Prose And Poetry : The Russian Revolution In The Liberator -- Our (?) Country : Mapping These 'colored' United States In The Messenger -- You Can't Go Back, They'll Cut Your Throat : The Failure Of Nostalgia In The Dial -- The Exodus Of The Little Review -- Beauty In Our Slaughter-fold : The Gold-mckay Liberator -- Conclusion, So Interesting And Modern...her Gesticulating Hands Show Her Origin. Adam Mckible. Originally Presented As The Author's Thesis (doctoral)--university Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, 1998. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 163-179) And Index. Examining reactions to the Russian Revolution by four little magazines of the teens and twenties, this book emphasises the vitality of little magazines and argues for their necessary place in the study of modernism