Little magazine, world form / Eric Bulson.

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Little magazines made modernism. These unconventional, noncommercial publications may have brought writers such as James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, and Wallace Stevens to the world but, as Eric Bulson shows in Little Magazine, World Form , their reach and importance extended far beyond Europe and the United States. By investigating the global and transnational itineraries of the little-magazine form, Bulson uncovers a worldwide network that influenced the development of literature and criticism in Africa, the West Indies, the Pacific Rim, and South America.

In addition to identifying how these circulations and exchanges worked, Bulson also addresses equally formative moments of disconnection and immobility. British and American writers who fled to Europe to escape Anglo-American provincialism, refugees from fascism, wandering surrealists, and displaced communists all contributed to the proliferation of print. Yet the little magazine was equally crucial to literary production and consumption in the postcolonial world, where it helped connect newly independent African nations. Bulson concludes with reflections on the digitization of these defunct little magazines and what it means for our ongoing desire to understand modernism's global dimensions in the past and its digital afterlife.

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A solid contribution to scholarship on little magazines, Little Magazine, World Form revisits and delves into the international nature of this literary genre. Bulson (Claremont Graduate Univ.) combines archival research, close readings of text and form in specific journals, and recent theoretical debates about world literature, and he looks at his subject through a variety of critical lenses. Among the book's highlights are use of network analysis in discussing little magazines; a reexamination of the international nature of Anglo-American reviews (the author is particularly interested in Pound and Eliot); a discussion of the little magazine in Italy, with particular emphasis on Marinetti and futurism; and an examination of the concept of exile (including both American expatriates and European refugees). In addition, Bulson draws on recent debates on postcolonialism in world literature, for example in a robust discussion focused on journals from the West Indies and Africa, and he discusses the telegraph as a metaphor and physical model (again focusing on Marinetti's work fostering futurism). The book concludes with a brief afterword on the digitization of little magazines. With this volume Bulson accomplishes his goal of advancing current scholarship on little magazines. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --Chatham B. Ewing, Cleveland Public Library