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The View from the Tower. Origins of an Antimodernist Image.
Theodore Ziolkowski
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paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 28.
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographical circumstances that motivated the four writers to choose their unusual retreats. From the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia to the ivory towers of the fin de si cle, the author traces the emergence of a variety of symbolic associations with the proud towers of the past, ... Read more
Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this book sets out to locate modern turriphilia in its cultural context and to explore the biographical circumstances that motivated the four writers to choose their unusual retreats. From the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia to the ivory towers of the fin de si cle, the author traces the emergence of a variety of symbolic associations with the proud towers of the past, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691604756
SKU
V9780691604756
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Reviews for The View from the Tower. Origins of an Antimodernist Image.
Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature and Language, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999