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"Primordial Modernism asks us to behold modernism afresh, through pineal eyes. Gone is the fetishization of male ego that once made Wyndham Lewis's coinage, ""the Men of 1914"", a reasonable characterization of the modernist movement. Gone, too, is the fetishizationof genius. Jolas is celebrated by Setz primarily for his influence on other writers, while the most august of the magazine's contributors, James Joyce, is shrunk; Setz puts it beautifully: ""The 'Work in Progress' was an agenda-setting presence [for transition], and the slither of that world of a book explored here has received a necessarily partial discussion"".--Beci Carver ""Times Literary Supplement"" Cathryn Setz is the first scholar who dares systematically study a key modernist magazine (the famous transition) via its fantastic zoology. Animals like amoebas, lizards, fish, and birds function as uncanny attractors bringing out problematics of raw life and pre-verbal expression, Ur-myths of nonhuman forms of social life. In this brilliant and captivating book, Setz offers us a new Origin of Species of transatlantic modernism.-- ""Jean-Michel Rabat�, University of Pennsylvania, American Academy of Arts and Sciences"""

Primordial Modernism asks us to behold modernism afresh, through pineal eyes. Gone is the fetishization of male ego that once made Wyndham Lewis's coinage, the Men of 1914 , a reasonable characterization of the modernist movement. Gone, too, is the fetishizationof genius. Jolas is celebrated by Setz primarily for his influence on other writers, while the most august of the magazine's contributors, James Joyce, is shrunk; Setz puts it beautifully: The 'Work in Progress' was an agenda-setting presence [for transition], and the slither of that world of a book explored here has received a necessarily partial discussion . --Beci Carver Times Literary Supplement

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Cathryn Setz is an Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford. Her work explores the junctions between modernist magazine culture and popular science, specifically around the 'Eclipse of Darwinism', 'bad' biology in 1920s America, and literary resistance to scientific racism. She is also Co-Editor of Shattered Objects: Djuna Barnes's Modernism (Penn State University Press, 2019), and a collaborative Selected Letters of Djuna Barnes project.

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