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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ziolkowski, Theodore (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: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.