Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry

The Contemporaneity of Modernism

By:

Charles Altieri

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

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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 Mallarme, 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 Cezanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.

Release date NZ

January 26th, 1990

Author

Charles Altieri

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

538

Series

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

Dimensions

152x234x30

ISBN-13

9780521330855

Product ID

2356936

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