LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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American Little Magazines of the 1920s and 1930s –
An Introduction

Simon G. Bernabas, Ph.D.

Introduction

The purpose of this article is to give a brief introduction to American little magazines of the 1920’s and 30s. In the broadest sense, most literary periodicals, including the literary/critical quarterly, are little magazines. Yet scholars who have made comprehensive studies of small magazines have assigned a more important and exalted status to the literary quarterly.

Little Magazines and Books

Little magazines play an important role in representing the literary-cultural characteristics of an age. True, books do reflect these peculiarities but quite often ideas enunciated in books find their early expression in magazines. Similarly, the creative expressions of an age come out through the pages of journals before they are collected and published in books. So it may be said that literary magazines published in any period can provide a fairly comprehensive picture of the creative and critical peculiarities of that time span. If this is true, the unique historical relevance of the American magazines published in the nineteen twenties and thirties cannot be overlooked, especially because they should contain the literary and artistic reflections of two of the momentous decades in the socio-cultural saga of that country. As it is well-known, if the twenties were characterized by the glitter of prosperity, the next decade, marked by poverty and desperation, exposed the corruption that underlay the American boom. The events of the decades should naturally receive the attention of the magazines of the time.

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Simon G. Bernabas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
PG Department of English
Ahmednagar College
Ahmednagar 414 001
Maharashtra
India
s_barnabas@yahoo.com
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