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Author Altieri, Charles, 1942-

Title Painterly abstraction in modernist American poetry : the contemporaneity of modernism / Charles Altieri
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989

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Description viii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge studies in American literature and culture
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-524)
Subject Abstraction in literature.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Art and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Self in literature.
LC no. 88035203
ISBN 0521330858