Elements Borrowed: On Charles Ricketts’ Reimagining of Russian Folk Tale
November 16th, 2020 The Dial’s co-editors Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon searched for ideas, inspiration, and material across time periods and cultures. …
‘Art for the sake of Art’- Then & Now
Through the analysis of Charles Ricketts’ and Charles Shannon’s – the editors of The Dial –Â intentions in producing the volume of the …
The Dial and its Obsession with Art
What really fascinated me about The Dial as a little magazine, is the incredible attention to detail. Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts …
I Spy With My Little Eye
Today’s discussion of intended audience got me thinking about the Modernist ideal of active reading. In Modernist literature, many writers purposefully leave …
Intertextuality in The Dial
The Dial was a counter-culture magazine first published in 1889. Very much created as art for art’s sake, the magazine was anti-capitalist, …
Keep the Queer Hush Hush – The Dial
We had Christina’s presentation on “Queer Making in the Dial” today. What I found the most interesting from today’s discussion was the …
Introduction: Modernity and the Visual
I had some understanding about how important images could be when paired with text. In my undergrad children’s literature class, it was …