Machine derived contents note: 1. It Must Be Abstract; 2. Self-subsuming Artifacts: The Logic of Constructivist Abstraction; 3. Knowledge Enormous Denies the God in Me: Abstraction and the Romantic Tradition; 4. Modernist Irony and the Kantian Heritage; 5. Eliot's Symbolists Subject as End and Beginning; 6. "The Abstraction of the Artist": Three Painterly Models for the Constructivist Will; 7. Modes of Abstraction in Modernist Poetry; 8. Modernist Abstraction and Pound's First Cantos: The Ethos for a New Renaissance; 9. Why Stevens Must Be Abstract; 10. Afterword: The End(s) of Modernism
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-524)