Modernist Mutations: The Morphology of the Imagist Poem: Context, Text, Intertext

Slawomir Wacior

Published by KUL / John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Press, 2003

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Scarce paperback, 267 pages, NOT ex-library. Minor wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Spine remains free of creasing. A barcode sticker on rear cover. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Modernist Mutations: Context [General; Sources, Themes, Groups, Poets]; 2. Textual Tapestries: Text [Des Imagistes 1914: - Richard Aldington (Sorrow; Loneliness; Nostalgia; The Past; Evanescence; Death; Conclusion); - Hilda Doolittle H.D. (Poetic Places [Maritime: The Sea; Arboreal]; Acts; Ideas); - Frank Stuart Flint (Part I: London - Passion; Part II: House - Incertitude; Part III: City Street - Immortality; Part IV: Park/ Garden - Anguish; Part V: The Pond - Sorrow); - Skipwith Cannell; - Amy Lowell; - James Joyce; - Ezra Pound; - Allen Upward; - John Cournos; / Some Imagist Poets 1915: - Richard Aldington - Hilda Doolittle - John Gould Fletcher (The Blue Symphony; London Excursion) - F.S. Flint - David Herbert Lawrence - Amy Lowell; / Some Imagist Poets 1916: - Richard Aldington - Hilda Doolittle - John Gould Fletcher - F.S. Flint - D.H. Lawrence - Amy Lowell; / Some Imagist Poets 1917: - Richard Aldington - Hilda Doolittle - John Gould Fletcher - F.S. Flint - D.H. Lawrence - Amy Lowell]; 3. Heterogeneous Hybrids: Intertext [Photography and Cinema; Painting; Sculpture; Music]; Bibliography [Primary Sources: Books, Anthologies and Articles Written by Imagists; Secondary Sources: Books and Articles About Imagism, Individual Poets, Historical Background and Theoretical Sources]; Summary in Polish; Index -- In the present study, the innovative and cerebral poetry of the Imagist movement, which revolutionized modern English and American poetry, has been analyzed in its contextual and inter-textual relationships with other arts. Consequently, the book is like the texts it attempts to investigate, a peculiar hybrid, a collage of three basic materials or analytical perspectives: an excerpt from an Imagist manifesto sketched out in handwriting (context), a torn out printed page from a first edition of Des Imagistes (text), and a photograph of a museum installation of a room devoted to Modernist art (intertext).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modernist Mutations: The Morphology of the Imagist Poem: Context, Text, Intertext
• Publisher: KUL / John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good