the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art /
First Statement of Responsibility
Nico Israel
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiv, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ;
Dimensions
21 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Modernist latitudes
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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
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TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism-- Theory, etc