The Revolution in the Visual Arts and the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; 76;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 July 1994
- ISBN 9780521431309
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 236x157x24 mm
- Weight 530 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 21 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This book is a major step toward a fuller exploration of the connection between the visual arts and Williams's concept of the Modernist poem.
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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...'
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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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