Black Riders : : The Visible Language of Modernism / / Jerome J. McGann.
"English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 35 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson
- PART ONE: A Revolution of the Word
- 1 "Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris
- 2 Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)
- PART TWO: Dichtung und Wahrheit
- 3 The Truth of Poetry. An Argument
- 4 The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue)
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index