View from the tower, the: origins of an antimodernist image
Auteur :
Ziolkowski, Theodore
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691604756
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2014
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
28 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 its cultural context and to explore the biographi