Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics

After the publication of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, a complex series of debates occurred over the traditions of English poetry. Analyzing these diverse discussions in a wide range of well-known periodicals during the late modernist period, Chambers uncovers how poetry was shaped by avant-garde ideas, setting poetic trends for the 20th century.

Modernism, Periodicals, and Cultural Poetics offers a substantial contribution to increasing scholarship on the late modernist period. The wealth of information covered in Chambers's book is ambitious: each chapter zeroes in on case studies featuring a complex periodical formation, both bringing home the centrality of periodicals in facilitating cultural change, and illustrating why periodical publications are quintessential resources for examining how cultural, political, and societal changes occur. (Leah Budke, Journal of European Studies, Vol. 3 (1), 2018)

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Matthew Chambers is Assistant Professor of Transatlantic and Media Studies at the University of Lodz, Poland.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Standards of Criticism 2. The English in English Surrealism 3. Popular Poetry and Mass-Observation 4. The Politics of Reception Conclusion: Periodical Formations, Anthologies, and Canons