Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Literature and Philosophy) - Softcover

Altieri, Charles

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Synopsis

Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry concentrates on the challenges posed to poetry by modernist painting: how could the poets adapt to the painters' abilities to recast our understanding of the psyche's needs, powers, and social dependencies, and how could they share the painters' efforts to find alternatives to what seemed the inescapably ideological grounds for all value claims? By stressing the poets' ways of making the syntax of artworks carry semantic force, this orientation generates a much more dynamic, philosophically stimulating sense of modernist poetry than the ones offered by the dominant styles of political critique.

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About the Author

Charles Altieri is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His books include Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry (1984), Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals (1990), and Subjective Agency (1994).

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