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Exhibitions at The Research Libraries Reviews of Two Worlds: French and American Literary Periodicals, 1850-2002From October 4, 2002 through December 7, 2002  For the past 150 years, literary magazines have served as the telegraph/telephone/e-mail connection for a variety of literary dialogues between French and American writers, permitting, with relative speed and facility, the transmission of poetry from one people to the other. The ephemeral, periodic quality of the "little review" has provided a unique forum for the sustained exchange of ideas that continue to inform the writing of French and American poets up to the present day. With the advent of web-based publishing, the products of this exchange have been projected into another dimension, and endowed with a presence and immediacy that seem to erase the real time and space separating the two countries, thus moving their respective poetries even closer. The goal of this exhibition is to document the high points of this exchange, following it as it writes itself on the pages of French and American literary magazines from 1945 through the present. By documenting the practice of publishing translations in journals, the exhibition will reveal the many ways in which the two parallel traditions have informed and influenced one another. |