Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos William

Klappentext This book is a major step toward a fuller exploration of the connection between the visual arts and Williams's concept of the Modernist poem. Zusammenfassung This book is a major step toward a fuller exploration of the connection between the visual arts and Williams' concept of the Modernist poem and of his achievement in transcending an art-for-art's-sake formalism to create poems that both reflect their own nature as a work of art and vividly evoke the world of which they are a part. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude: Getting in touch; 1. 'A poem can be made of anything'; 2. Vortex: or, A thing is what it does; 3. The poem as a field of action; 4. Soothing the savage beast: cubist realism and the urban landscape; 5. The virgin and the dynamo; 6. The search for a synthetic form; 7. The poem on the page; Conclusion; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: Peter Halter, Peter (Universite De Lausanne Halter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10266-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies