poetic parties and casual correlations

The little review and form

authored by

Ruth Mayer

Abstract

This article is concerned with the modernist little magazine The Little Review (1914–1929), focusing on the magazine’s run in the 1910s and on the ways in which it mixed up social concerns of the day—particularly sex and gender discourses—with deliberations around art and aesthetics. I argue that The Little Review both mirrors and hyperbolizes the taxonomic fervor of modernist discourses, splicing seemingly disconnected discourses together in turn. The magazine’s highly performative self-fashioning can be traced through metaphors and imageries of form that highlight improvisation and change: the compilation, the pattern, the bundle.

Organisation(s)

English Department

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of Modern Periodical Studies

Volume

13

Pages

205-225

No. of pages

21

ISSN

1947-6574

Publication date

12.2023

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Communication, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.13.2.0205 (Access: Closed)