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John Lehmann’s New Writing: The Duty to Be Tormented
Françoise Bortsubject
Late Modernism[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literatureliterary historyModernist magazineshistoire de l’édition[ SHS.LITT ] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literaturerevues modernistesprofession d’auteur[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/Literaturehistory of publishinghistoire de la littératurefin de l’époque du modernismeModernismeauthorshipComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSengagementdescription
John Lehmann’s magazine New Writing, launched in 1936, may be said to give literary historians a slow-motion image of the evolution of artistic consciousness in one of the most turbulent periods of the twentieth century. Throughout the fourteen years of its existence, encompassing the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War, the magazine covers a neglected period of transition in the evolution of modernism. Through his editorial policy and a susceptible interpretation of the Zeitgeist, Lehmann voices the particular torments of his generation, too young to have participated in the First World War, but deeply affected by it. The magazine constitutes an attempt to change the role and social representation of authors and artists, to help them find new modes of commitment to collective sufferings, and create a community of readers involved in the defence of art and literature as part and parcel of the political experience.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-01-01 |