The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image
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The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image
By (Author) Theodore Ziolkowski
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
809.933112
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1999
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Paperback
216
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
28g
Description
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
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Honorable Mention for the 1999 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Literature and Language, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999
