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From the Historical Avant-Garde to Highbrow Coterie Modernism: The Little Review's Wartime Advances and Retreats

Criticism (Detroit), 2015-09, Vol.57 (4), p.581-608 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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    From the Historical Avant-Garde to Highbrow Coterie Modernism: The Little Review's Wartime Advances and Retreats
  • Author: La Casse, Christopher J.
  • Subjects: Anarchism ; Anderson, Margaret C. (1886-1973) ; Authors ; Avant garde ; Editorials ; English Literature ; History ; Industrial unions ; Literary criticism ; Literary magazines ; Literary modernism ; Literary newspapers and periodicals ; Little magazines ; Little Review ; Little review (Chicago, Ill.) ; Modernism ; Modernism (Literature) ; Modernist art ; News content ; Newspapers and Other Periodicals ; Philosophy ; Political activism ; Politics ; Pound, Ezra ; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) ; Radicalism in literature ; Twentieth Century ; War ; World War I
  • Is Part Of: Criticism (Detroit), 2015-09, Vol.57 (4), p.581-608
  • Description: Dewitt Wing was the first patron who additionally participated in the inception of the magazine as an idea, but he felt compelled for professional reasons to withdraw his subsidy, which had covered the printer's bill and office rent.6 Rather than being deterred, Anderson intensified her commitments to political anarchism. Nietzsche's books were given as gifts between lovers and as tokens of social solidarity among labor activists.8 A generation of artists revolting against conservativism was especially drawn to an antifoundational philosophy that unsettled the grounds of moral certainties.9 Rather than instructing through a systematic philosophy, Nietzsche questioned and provoked through his highly interpretative aphoristic and rhapsodic proclamations.10 While many anarchists rejected Nietzsche's "predatory quality" and "aristocratic" stance toward the masses, several adopted his teachings as a "philosophy of life" rather than a political program.11 Scholars have argued that Anderson's anarcho-individualism differed from Goldman's collectivist vision.12 Although such a distinction is fair and important to make about a later stage in their relationship, as will be discussed subsequently, what united Anderson and Goldman in 1915, while the magazine was still being published in Chicago, was the wartime climate fueling their shared belief that cultivating individualism was vital to a freethinking society.13 Both were drawn to the nineteenth-century iconoclast's notion of the "transvaluation of all values," which could make individuals out of the masses by provoking people to question values reproduced through society's institutions.\n103 The avant-garde, modernist, mass culture boundaries were redrawn endlessly across magazine phases, but, because scholars tend to fixate on moments, failing to discern the evolving relationships, much of the avant-garde lore attributed to little magazines is a mischaracterization.
  • Publisher: Detroit: Wayne State University Press
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0011-1589
    EISSN: 1536-0342
    DOI: 10.13110/criticism.57.4.0581
    CODEN: CRITB3
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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