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Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism

Altieri, Charles
Charles, Altieri

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Book 37

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521107296
ISBN13: 9780521107297
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 2 2009
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.73
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealizing principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarmé, to T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cézanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.

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