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Author Israel, Nico, author.

Title Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / Nico Israel.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Modernist latitudes
Modernist latitudes.
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.
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Subject Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literature, Modern.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Modernism (Literature)
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals -- Symbolic aspects.
Spirals -- Symbolic aspects.
Spirals in art.
Spirals in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Israel, Nico. Spirals. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015] 9780231153027 (DLC) 2014028478 (OCoLC)880565867
ISBN 9780231526685 (electronic book)
0231526687 (electronic book)
9780231153027