Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism - Couverture rigide

Altieri, Charles

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521330858 ISBN 13 : 9780521330855

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

Book by Altieri Charles

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealising principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarme, to T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cezanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.

Revue de presse :

"Finally a much-needed volume on the interrelations between modernist poetry and modernist art in the United States!...A major contribution to the study of the sister arts." Virginia Quarterly

"Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry is full of valuable insights and analyses." American Literature

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521330858
• ISBN 13: 9780521330855
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 538