Modernism Edited
Autor:
Victoria Bazin
Examines Marianne Moores editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929As edi...
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Examines Marianne Moores editorship of the modernist magazine, the Dial between 1925 and 1929
As editor of the Dial, Moore wielded considerable cultural authority in the world of arts and letters, yet cultural histories of modernist magazines have largely overlooked her editorial influence. Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine makes visible Moores contribution to the production of modernism even as it complicates the concept of editorial agency. It explores the public face of the modernist editor, the image of highbrow distinction circulated by the Dial and embodied by the figure of Miss Moore. It also examines Moores editorial practice as a form of modernist contractility drawing on her own poetics to understand more fully the motives underpinning her revisions. It returns to the well-known case of Moores radical cuts to Hart Cranes poem The Wine Menagerie as well as instances of collaborative struggle with Williams Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Paul Rosenfeld and D. H. Lawrence. In doing so, the book conceptualises editorial labour as a form of creative and critical social practice.
Key Features:
Returns to controversial case of Moores revisions to Hart Cranes The Wine MenagerieUncovers evidence that points to Moores revisions to the work of other well-known modernistsConceptualizes editorial agencyDevelops methodologies for critically engaging with magazine contentUncovers and analyses Moores advertisements for the DialProduces a sustained analysis of Moores editorial comments for the DialDraws on Moores poetics to understand her editorial revisions
