Modernist Magazines and Digital Humanities

I would really like to look into the way that The New Age viewed the Russians. From our discussions earlier in class and my readings so far I see that the contributors to The New Age were very opinionated about the political situation in Russia. I don't think that the contributors were pro-Communist. The editors as well realized that there was a political problem in Russia that needed to be fixed. There were many editorials written and many letters to the editor about the situation in Russia and what could be done to "fix" it. I will choose a couple of editorials and some essays to write about the way that Russia was viewed by The New Age. 

As noted in one of our earlier discussions I think it would be interesting to see how Russia was included in the magazines during the Modernist Era even though the movement did not reach that country. I am open to any and all suggestions.

     Rosanna Cinquemani

      In my final paper I would like to write about The Harlem Renaissance. I would be using the magazine entitled "Crisis" that has not yet been added to the MJP but will be added shortly, as previously discussed. I would discuss the Harlem Renaissance in general while comparing it to the magazine and how the magazine expressed emotions going on during the African American movement in Harlem.

In my final paper, I plan to discuss an issue in the 1910 Collection Magazine, entitled Cosmopolitan. I will give a brief history of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, and how it has changed over the past century. I will touch on articles, poems, and stories discussed in this issue, while making strong attempts to compare how the magazine has changed from then to the current magazine that is still sold in many stores today. In this comparison, I will bring up issues of gender, femininity, family, school, love, lust and how the female empowerment has influenced the magazine to transform from what it was, to what is has become today.

I would like to talk about the representation of female identity/consciousness in the magazines, particularly Wheels and Coterie, with a focus on the poems of Iris Tree in multiple numbers of both magazines.  I will discuss the poems by Sitwell and Tree from Wheels that I wrote about for the group project, further contextualizing them among Tree's more sexually overt post-war poems in numbers 4-7 of Coterie, as well as poems by another female writer, Amy Lowell.  I hope to include an analysis of war vs. post-war effects in these poems, as they pertain to an emerging frankness of sexuality and self-awareness.

For my paper, I want to look at the Vorticist Movement in "Blast" and the Futurist Movement in "The New Age". I plan on comparing the way each movement views women and how that is expressed in their writings. I know from another class that the Futurist movement was against the Feminist movement so I feel that there should be some mention of their opinion of women. Also from our discussions in class, it was clear that there are many examples in Blast that showcases the writer's ideas on the role of women.

<!--StartFragment-->For my final paper I would like to continue looking at gender and how women were portrayed during the period. Pieces such as "The Enemy in the House" and "Changing Mirrors" in Wheels as well as "Feminine Fables: The Style of the Peri" in the New Age would prove to be central to my paper. I hope to prove the complexities of the female experience in the war and shed a positive light on women as strong even thought the general sentiment of misogyny was rampant during the period.

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For my final paper I would like to analyze the development of influence Japanese poetry had on the editors and contributers to Poetry. Within the ten years worth of issues available on the Modernist Journals Project website there are dozens of instances in which this influence can be discerned. Poetry published plays and poems by Japanese authors as well as by American and English authors who either experimented with Japanese form or subject matter. For example in the second issue of poetry, published in November of 1912, editor Harriet Monroe contributed a poem entitled Nogi which while Western in form, takes Japan as its subject. By the June, 1921 issue Poetry published series of poems in Japanese form, by Amy Lowell and Jun Fujita side by side. Additionally, there are numerous editorial comments and reviews which explicitely discuss Japanese influence on modern Western poetry including Incarnations, in the June, 1913 issue, and Waley on the "Uta" in the August, 1920 issue. By tracing the development of Japanese influence in both the academic and artistic contributions to Poetry in the available issues, it is clear that there was an ongoing interest in extracting benefit from Japanese artistic sources.

With in my finale paper I want to discuss how poetry written by the solider of Mssion Iraqi Freedom with in the battle field related to poetry to from first had account World War I soldiers. I plan to incorporate with in my paper works from Siegfried Sassoon "How to Die" & Wilfred Owen "Dulce et Decorum Est ". As well as the excepts for the book Blood, Sweat & Fury : An American Expeditionary Manifesto of Poetry by Andrew M. BoreneWith in my argument I would like to discuss how similar the effects of war had on soldiers within the modernist movement and the soldiers of today’s generation.

For my final paper, I would like to focus on the visual aspects of advertisements, as they relate to the strategy of the advertiser. Some ads include print only, or choose certain fonts, while others have elaborate artwork which suggests a lifestyle associated with the product. The covers of magazines--and their evolution over the course of the publication--will be considered as another facet of advertising, for the magazine itself.