Over at Jacket2, they’ve recently published online reissues and downloadable pdfs of Secession magazine (1922-24). Here’s a part of the Jacket2 introduction:
Secession, founded in 1922 by Gorham B. Munson, sought to give corner to the “youngest generation” of interwar modernists. Printed at various junctures in Vienna, Berlin, New York, Florence, and Reutte (Tyrol), Secession nevertheless became an important platform distributing literary Dadaism to New York. Accompanied by editors Kenneth Burke, John Brooks Wheelwright, and Matthew Josephson (often operating under the nom de plume Will Bray), Secession moved in upredictable directions over the eight installments of its premeditated two-year run.
If you’re not already interested, look at this partial list of people published in Secession: Continue reading
Culturomics’s New Project Has Periodicals
Harvard’s Cultural Observatory–the home of Culturomics and Google ngrams–has quietly introduced Bookworm, a new (still in alpha) tool for interacting with digitized library books. The databases this time around are the Open Library and Internet Archive, and it searches only works in the public domain (more specifically, 1830-1922), which makes it a great took for studying the development of modernism. It improves on nGrams in 3 big ways. Continue reading →
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