About the Seminar
The rise of the “new modernist studies” has sparked a flourishing scholarly and pedagogical interest in the cultural and aesthetic complexities of the early twentieth century. As scholars now begin to reassess the dense complexities of modern cultural production, periodicals have emerged as the focal point of what Mark Morrison calls “the public face of modernism”: the vitally engaged interface between a rapidly expanding reading public and the fundamental transformation in cultural styles we associate with modernism. In the twentieth century’s opening decades, print culture reached its full flower in the magazines as almost all literary production passed through their pages: some in elite “littles” like the Egoist and the Little Review where James Joyce and Ezra Pound regularly published; others in story-magazines and pulps where genres like science-fiction and the western were born; and still others in mass-market venues like Scribner’s where Edith Wharton, William, Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald placed a dazzling array of stories, novels, and articles amid a welter of advertisements. This interdisciplinary seminar will gather together scholars and teachers to study these complex and fascinating documents. In intense seminars and lab sessions, you will work with leading experts in the fields while conducting your own research and experimenting with cutting-edge tools for digital research. By the seminar’s end, you’ll will emerge with new ideas for teaching and research on magazines and with a richer sense modernism’s rise in the English-speaking world.
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