• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde: Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities

Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde: Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Science and Literature

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1350299820
ISBN13: 9781350299825
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Feb 9 2023
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens - whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York.

This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science's new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein's visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

Eames, Rachel Fountain

Also in

Literary Criticism