Israel, Nico

Spirals the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / [Texte imprimé] : Nico Israel - New York : Columbia University Press, cop. 2015 - 1 vol. (XIV-299 p.)-[14] p. de pl) : ill. ; 24 cm - Modernist latitudes . - Modernist latitudes (Columbia University Press, New York) .

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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

978-0-231-15302-7

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

809.9112