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Author Binckes, Faith

Title Modernism, magazines, and the British avant-garde / Faith Binckes
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford English monographs
Oxford English monographs.
Contents List of Illustrations; Notes to the Text; Introduction: Little Magazines: Modernism in Miniature?; 1. Textual Investments and Publishing Fields; 2. Networks of Difference: Rhythm and the Avant-Garde, 19111912; 3. 'Cette belle allure indpendante': Tradition, France, and the Fantaisistes; 4. 'The type of people one can't stand': Murry, Mansfield, Modernism; 5. Being Graphic: Post-Impressionism, Reproduction, and the Rhythmists; 6. Sailing the 'Blue Sieve': Rhythm, the Blue Review, and the Georgians; In Conclusion: Afterlives and the Signature; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book is a re-examination of the fertile years of early modernism immediately preceding the First World War. During this period, how, where, and under whose terms the avant-garde in Britain would be constructed and consumed were very much to play for. It is the first study to look in detail at two little magazines marginalised from many accounts of this competitive process: Rhythm and the Blue Review. By thoroughly examining not only the content but theinterrelated networks that defined and surrounded these publications, Faith Binckes aims to provide a fresh and challenging perspective to
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-253) and index
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SUBJECT Rhythm (London, England : 1911)
Blue review (London, England)
Subject Literature, Experimental -- Great Britain -- History and criticism
Art and literature.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- 20th century
Periodicals -- History -- 20th century
Periodicals -- Publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Art and literature
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Intellectual life
Literature, Experimental
Periodicals
Periodicals -- Publishing
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056857
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191576218
0191576212