The View from the Tower : Origins of an Antimodernist Image /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ziolkowski, Theodore (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Towers.
Modernism (Literature)
Literature, Modern.
Literary landmarks.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
Écrivains > Residences et lieux familiers.
Modernisme (Litterature)
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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