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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Halter, Peter (Universite De Lausanne Halter, Halter Peter
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521102667
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10266-7
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets