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Charles Altieri : Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989

ISBN 9780521330855

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. O4 - An ex-library first edition (First published 1989) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has label on the spine, some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, crease on some corners, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), lightly cocked, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, wrinkled patches on some edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. 9.25"x6.25", 529 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 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 Mallarmé, 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 Cézanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.. Ex-Library. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good

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