Setz Catherine, Primordial Modernism: Animals, Ideas, transition (1927-1938)

Abstract

In Primordial Modernism: Animals, Ideas, transition (1927–1938), Cathryn Setz focuses on transition, one of the transatlantic avant-garde ‘little’ magazines, representative of European literary movements with Surrealism, Dadaism and Expressionism, at the time when Eugene Jolas was its editor from the end of the 1920s to the early 1940s. Setz explores one of the overlooked fundamental ‘patterns’ (7) the magazine fed on, that of animal representation. If the study of transition has been ‘oddly’...