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Description

1. 1 online resource (xiv, 299 pages, 17 plates) : illustrations.

Series statement

1. Modernist latitudes

Uniform title

1. Spirals (Online)

Alternative title

1. Spirals (Online)

Subject

1. Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc
2. Modernism (Literature)
3. Spirals > Symbolic aspects
4. Spirals in art

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Author

1. Israel, Nico.

Title

1. Spirals [electronic resource] : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art / Nico Israel.

Imprint

1. New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]

Series

1. Modernist latitudes

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

LCCN

1. 2014028478