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

Brings ideas and animals together to shed new light on modernist magazine culture
Tests the concept of ‘primordial’ modernism as a tributary of primitivism, Jungian thought, and fraught nationalismsProvides readings of Eugene Jolas’s creative and critical works that place him centre—stage in modernist studiesMoves between unpublished archival material, reception studies, and readings of overlooked authorsConsiders a wide range of modernist authors and artists as befitting to such a rich doc...