Eclectic/Subversive Period: Eugene Jolas and the Modernist Laboratory of transition

Abstract

A consideration of the two journals bearing the title Transition: the pre-war journal edited by Eugene Jolas and the postwar journal edited by Georges Duthuit, respectively. This study demonstrates each editor's highly self-conscious approach to defining and encapsulating modernist aesthetics of unique time, place, and experience. More importantly, perhaps, the evolving dialogues and editorial practices of these two journals reveal a corresponding evolution from high to late modernism.