Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analysing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art.
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"Finally a much-needed volume on the interrelations between modernist poetry and modernist art in the United States!...A major contribution to the study of the sister arts." Virginia Quarterly "Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry is full of valuable insights and analyses." American Literature
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Charles Altieri's book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context.
1. It must be abstract;
2. Self-subsuming artifacts: the logic of constructivist abstraction;
3. Knowledge enormous denies the god in me: abstraction and the Romantic tradition;
4. Modernist irony and the Kantian heritage;
5. Eliot's Symbolists subject as end and beginning;
6. 'The abstraction of the artist': three painterly models for the constructivist will;
7. Modes of abstraction in Modernist poetry;
8. Modernist abstraction and Pound's first Cantos: the ethos for a new Renaissance;
9. Why Stevens must be abstract;
10. Afterword: the end(s) of Modernism.
