The revolution in the visual arts and the poetry of William Carlos Williams
- 作者: Halter, Peter
- 其他題名:
- Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
- 出版: Cambridge [England] : Cambridge University Press
- 叢書名: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;76
- 主題: Williams, William Carlos 1883-1963 , Art and literature--History--United States--20th century , Modernism (Literature)--United States. , Visual perception in literature , Modernism (Art)--United States.
- ISBN: 0521431301 :: US$65.45
- 資料類型: 圖書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-264) and index
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- 系統號: 005205226 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
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…'