Format:
XIV, 299 S., [8] Bl
,
Ill
ISBN:
9780231153027
Series Statement:
Modernist latitudes
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction: On spiralsDefinitions: 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9782231526685
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Spirale
;
Kunst
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
