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Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism

Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism

Painter, Kirsten Blythe

Hardcover

Series: Verbal Art: Studies in Poetics

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0804750750
ISBN13: 9780804750752
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Dec 20 2005
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.34
Language: English

Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of Tempered Modernism, which blossomed in the first two decades of the twentieth century, and was exemplified by the early works of Akhmatova, Rilke, H. D., and Williams. While the international nature of Radical Modernism, such as Futurism, Expressionism, and Dadaism, has been well documented, the connections among Tempered Modernists have been ignored. This is the first book to delineate thoroughly the international nature of this phenomenon--an evolutionary alternative to the revolutionary Futurist techniques of shock and rupture. Tempered Modernists sought newness through precision, palpability, equilibrium, and restraint, crafting small poems that found beauty in the subdued, ordinary, and everyday.

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