| Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism Contributor(s): Altieri, Charles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521107296 ISBN-13: 9780521107297 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $61.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.509 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9" (1.73 lbs) 540 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 Mallarm , 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 C zanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art. |