Making the Modernist Novel:
Little Magazines Presentations
English 314 (The Culture of Literary Modernisms)
Meegan Kennedy
You will be working in a 3-4 person group to prepare a 10-15 minute presentation to the class on one of the following "little magazines" important to the fostering of modernist aesthetics and communities. Your report should include a brief history and an assessment of the role of the magazine in the history of modernisms. Visual aids, handouts, interactive discussions are encouraged. You are expected to examine individual copies of the magazine as part of your work in preparing this report. Reprint editions are acceptable. You will want to look over the following timeline of possible choices before signup in class on Tuesday, 18 September 2001.
Presentations will begin Tuesday, 9 October 2001.
Timeline of some Modernist Little Magazines:
A listing (organized by date) of magazine title, founder/editor, dates, location, and a notation if not available at Trinity. Remember that many little magazines published authors and artists working outside the country of publication.
New Age, A. R. Orage (1907-22, London) (http://www.modjourn.brown.edu/mjp/newage.html)
Transatlantic Review, Ford Madox Ford w/Ernest Hemingway (1918 - ?, Paris)
(only a few at TC, so use WU)
New Freewoman, Dora Marsden (1911-13, London) à Egoist , Ezra Pound/Harriet Shaw Weaver (1914-1919, London)
(WU only)
Poetry, Harriet Monroe and Ezra Pound (1912 - ?, Chicago)
Blast, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound (1914-15, London)
Little Review, Margaret Anderson (1914 - 29, Chicago)
Dial, Scofield Thayer and Marianne Moore (1920-29, New York)
Criterion, T. S. Eliot (1922-1929, London)
transition, Eugene Jolas w/ James Joyce, Gertrude Stein (1927-38, Paris)
Grading
For each presentation, your classmates and I will evaluate you using the a worksheet with the following criteria:
Name of little magazine:
History? General facts and context?
Significance of magazine & its link to Modernism(s)
Use of primary texts
Use of secondary texts
Clarity and thoroughness of presentation
Creativity & originality
Suggestions
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