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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 it...

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Autor principal: Ziolkowski, Theodore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t CONTENTS --  |t ILLUSTRATIONS --  |t PREFACE --  |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --  |t CHAPTER ONE. The Proud Towers --  |t CHAPTER TWO. William Butler Teats: The Tower of Visions --  |t CHAPTER THREE. Robinson Feffers: The Tower beyond Time --  |t CHAPTER FOUR. Rainer Maria Rilke: The Tower of Desire --  |t CHAPTER FIVE. Carl Gustav Fung: The Tower of the Psyche --  |t CHAPTER SIX. The Broken Towers --  |t NOTES --  |t INDEX --  |t ABOUT THE AUTHOR. 
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