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Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes
David Lehardy Sweet
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paperback. This text examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery. All these were chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for their critical writings on art. Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ADF; 3JJ; ACX; AFC; AGZ; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 581.
This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery--all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality of their critical writings on art. Close attention is paid to essays on painters identified with Cubism, Futurism, and Dada-Surrealism in France and with Abstract Expressionism and New Realism in the United States. Selected poems are examined in light of the critical essays and are taken either as illustrations of a new plastic poetic or as novel hybrids of plastic and literary ... Read more
This book examines poetic adaptations of painterly techniques in works by writers such as Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, Andre Breton, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery--all chosen for the experimentalism of their poetry as well as for the quality of their critical writings on art. Close attention is paid to essays on painters identified with Cubism, Futurism, and Dada-Surrealism in France and with Abstract Expressionism and New Realism in the United States. Selected poems are examined in light of the critical essays and are taken either as illustrations of a new plastic poetic or as novel hybrids of plastic and literary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
UNC Department of Romance Studies United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807892817
SKU
V9780807892817
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About David Lehardy Sweet
David LeHardy Sweet is Assistant Professor of literature in the Department of English & Comparative Literature at The American University in Cairo.
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