Israel Spirals

The Whirled Image in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-52668-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Modernist Latitudes

Nico Israel argues that spirals illuminate the torsions of history and geopolitics within modernity. Taking the form of the spiral not only as his topic but as inspiration for his method, Israel challenges familiar, discipline-based approaches to modernism and its aftermaths and gives twenty-first-century theory an important new spin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Israel, Nico

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Introduction: On Spirals
1. Definitions: A Brief History of Spirals (and a Way of Reading Spirally)
2. Entering the Whirlpool: 'Pataphysics, Futurism, Vorticism
3. Twinned Towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the Unfashionable Performance of Internationalism
4. L'Habite en Spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the Ineluctable Visibility of Entropy
Plates
5. At the End of the Jetty: Beckett. Smithson. Recoil. Return
In Conclusion: The Spiral and the Grid
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

Leseproben

Read the introduction, "On Spirals":

Über Autor(innen)

Nico Israel is an associate professor of English at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Hunter College. He is the author of Outlandish: Writing Between Exile and Diaspora and has published numerous academic essays on twentieth-century literature and critical theory. He has also published widely on modern and contemporary visual art in Artforum, art exhibition catalogs, and other publications.