Primordial modernism animals, ideas, transition (1927-1938)

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. Amoebas, fish, lizards, birds - some of the 'lowest' and 'oldest' creatures o...

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1. Verfasser: Setz, Cathryn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2019
Schriftenreihe:Edinburgh critical studies in modernist culture
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Zusammenfassung: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. 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
Beschreibung:xii, 212 Seiten
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ISBN:9780748692170
978-0-7486-9217-0