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
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 29.07.1994
• EAN: 9780521431309
• ISBN: 978-0-521-43130-9
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Cambridge Astrophysics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese