Little Magazines & Modernism: New Approaches

摘要

Mark Morrison indicates in the "Preface" that "little magazines have long been recognized as key components of modernism." During "the last decade or so modernism has undergone a reconceptualization - indeed a recontextualization - has re-energized the study of little magazines." So much so that "scholars have begun to frame the magazines themselves as primary texts." Scholars have also been engaged with the magazine's relationship to "commercial culture and ... mass-market periodicals," the little magazine "as political text and primary documents." Further, little magazines "have proved to be richly significant sites for exploring how bibliographic code works in modernism." By "bibliographical code" is meant not the words on the page but the "layout, surrounding texts, font, illustrations," and so on (pp. xv-xvi).