Charles Altieri, Altieri Charles

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry

The Contemporaneity of Modernism

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Produktbeschreibung

Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 867g
• ISBN-13: 9780521107297
• ISBN-10: 0521107296
• Artikelnr.: 25932583

Inhaltsangabe

1. It must be abstract
2. Self-subsuming artifacts: the logic of constructivist abstraction
3. Knowledge enormous denies the god in me: abstraction and the Romantic tradition
4. Modernist irony and the Kantian heritage
5. Eliot's Symbolists subject as end and beginning
6. 'The abstraction of the artist': three painterly models for the constructivist will
7. Modes of abstraction in Modernist poetry
8. Modernist abstraction and Pound's first Cantos: the ethos for a new Renaissance
9. Why Stevens must be abstract
10. Afterword: the end(s) of Modernism.