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Modernism, magazines, and the British avant-garde / Faith Binckes. Reading Rhythm, 1910-1914.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Oxford English monographsPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: viii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780199252527 (acidfree paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 22 820.900912 BIN
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Contents:
Introduction: little magazines: modernism in miniature? 1. Textual investments and publishing fields 2. Networks of difference: Rhythm and the avant-garde, 1911-1912 3. "Cette belle allure independante": trandition, 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 7. In conclusion: afterlives and the Signature.
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.
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 2000.

Introduction: little magazines: modernism in miniature? 1. Textual investments and publishing fields 2. Networks of difference: Rhythm and the avant-garde, 1911-1912 3. "Cette belle allure independante": trandition, 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 7. In conclusion: afterlives and the Signature.

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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-253) and index.

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