Spirals : the whirled image in twentieth-century literature and art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Israel, Nico (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:	Modernist latitudes.
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc. Modernism (Literature) Spirals > Symbolic aspects. Spirals in art.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: On spirals
Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally)
Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism
Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism
L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy
At the end of the jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. recoil . . . return
In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.