The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats

by Miranda B. Hickman

Book Overview

Addressing both the literature and the visual arts of Anglo-American modernism, The Geometry of Modernism recovers a crucial development of modernism's early years that until now has received little sustained critical attention: the distinctive idiom composed of geometric forms and metaphors generated within the early modernist movement of Vorticism, formed in London in 1914. Focusing on the work of Wyndham Lewis, leader of the Vorticist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292722273
• ISBN13: 9780292722279
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"