The View from the Tower : Origins of an Antimodernist Image /
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...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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Edición: | Core Textbook |
Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
405 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. The Proud Towers
- CHAPTER TWO. William Butler Teats: The Tower of Visions
- CHAPTER THREE. Robinson Feffers: The Tower beyond Time
- CHAPTER FOUR. Rainer Maria Rilke: The Tower of Desire
- CHAPTER FIVE. Carl Gustav Fung: The Tower of the Psyche
- CHAPTER SIX. The Broken Towers
- NOTES
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR