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Planets on Tables : Poetry, Still Life, and the Turning World /

Poets have long been drawn to the images and techniques of still life. Artists and poets alike present intimate worlds where time is suspended in the play of form and color and where history disappears amid everyday things. The genre of still life with its focus on the domestic sphere seemed to some...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Costello, Bonnie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : crude foyers
  • Wallace Stevens : local objects and distant wars
  • William Carlos Williams : contending in still life
  • Elizabeth Bishop's ethnographic eye
  • Joseph Cornell : soap bubbles and shooting galleries
  • Richard Wilbur : Xenia
  • Conclusion : domestic disturbance.