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Author:

Israel, Nico, author.

Title:

Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / Nico Israel.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Literature, Modern--20th century--Theory, etc.--Theory, etc.
Modernism (Literature)
Spirals--Symbolic aspects.
Spirals in art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Modernist latitudes

ISBN:

0231153023
9780231153027

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880565867

LCCN:

2014028478

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)