Modernism in the Magazines : An Introduction

by Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman

• ISBN13: 9780300142044
• ISBN10: 0300142048
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-06-29
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

If modernism began in the magazines, as Robert Scholes and Clifford Wulfman argue, then the study of modern culture should begin with these publications. Scholes and Wulfman's radically inclusive approach not only considers the "little" modernist magazines alongside the "big" or mass magazines often dismissed as antithetical to modernism's elite culture, but also insists that scholars must investigate their contents as a wholefrom poetry to advertisingto appreciate their full significance. The book's appendix also reprints a previously uncollected critique of popular British magazines from 1917 and 1918 by Ezra Pound.

Author Biography

Robert Scholes is Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University, co-director of the Modernist Journals Project, and former president of the MLA. He is the author of numerous books, including The Crafty Reader, The Rise and Fall of English, and Parodoxy of Modernism.
Clifford Wulfman is coordinator of Library Digital Initiatives at Princeton University and technical director of the Modernist Journals Project.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Ezra Pound, Founder of Modern Periodical Studies	p. 1
Modernity and the Rise of Modernism: A Review	p. 26
Rethinking Modernist Magazines: From Genres to Database	p. 44
Modernism in the Magazines: The Case of Visual Art	p. 73
Modernism's Other: The Art of Advertising	p. 118
How to Study a Modern Magazine	p. 143
"On or About December 1910"	p. 168
The Hole in the Archive and the Study of Modernist Magazines	p. 196
Appendix: Studies in Contemporary Mentality, Ezra Pound	p. 223
Works Cited and Consulted	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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