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1 online resource. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Modernist latitudes
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Modernist latitudes.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: On spirals -- Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally) -- Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism -- Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism -- L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy -- At the end of the jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. recoil . . . return -- In conclusion: The spiral and the grid. |
Summary |
In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most significant literature and visual art of the 20th century. Juxtaposing the work of influential writers and artists, he argues that spirals provide a crucial frame for understanding the mutual involvement of modernity, history, and geopolitics, complicating the spatio-temporal logic of literary and artistic genres and of scholarly disciplines. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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Literature, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) |
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Spirals -- Symbolic aspects.
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Spirals -- Symbolic aspects. |
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Spirals in art.
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Spirals in art. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Israel, Nico. Spirals. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231153027 (DLC) 2014028478 (OCoLC)880565867 |
ISBN |
9780231526685 (electronic book) |
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0231526687 (electronic book) |
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9780231153027 |
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