Lori Cole

Bio

Lori Cole is Clinical Associate Professor and Director of the interdisciplinary master’s program XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at New York University. She is the author of Surveying the Avant-Garde: Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines (Penn State University Press, 2018).

Contributions

“Do we have an international culture?”: Questioning Transnational Periodical Studies

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In 1925 Henry Poulaille issued a questionnaire asking, “Do we have an international culture?” [1] In response René Guénon questioned the premise of the exercise, writing, “I do not know if whether by ‘international culture’ you mean only European culture or . . . if you take this expression in a broader sense.” [2] In his response Miguel de Unamuno goes even further, aligning the inquiry with a French “search for exoticism” and recommends using the term “universal” rather than “international.”...

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transnational periodicals