Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry - The Contemporaneity of Modernism

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

Product details

• Authors: Charles Altieri, Altieri Charles
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521107297
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10729-7
• No. of pages: 540
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies