The revolution in the visual arts and the poetry of William Carlos Williams
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The revolution in the visual arts and the poetry of William Carlos Williams
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 76)
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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Bibliography: p. 254-264
Includes index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
The formation of Modernist literature took place in a cultural climate characterised by an unprecedented collaboration between painters, sculptors, writers, musicians and critics on both sides of the Atlantic. Within this multifaceted movement, William Carlos Williams is a paradigmatic case of a writer whose work was the result of a successful attempt at integrating ideas and concepts from the revolutionary visual arts. 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 which both reflect their own nature as a work of art and vividly evoke the world of that they are a part. As Williams' repeatedly stressed, 'It must not be forgot that we smell, hear and see with words and words alone and that with a new language we smell, hear and see afresh...'
目次
- 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.
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