Rachel Fountain Eames

Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde (eBook, PDF)

Quantum Modernisms and Modernist Relativities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets - William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Wallace Stevens - whose lives crossed paths in 20th-century New York. This book explores how modernist art movements have shaped these writers' thinking about physics in relation to their work, demonstrating how science's new ideas about measurement and how to visualize material reality provoked innovative poetic forms and images. From Einstein's visit to New York City in 1921 to the impact of the atomic bomb, the author traces the flow of ideas about physics through culture, linking the new physics with modern approaches to art found in Cubism, Futurism, Dada and Surrealism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350299832
• Artikelnr.: 67389512

Autorenporträt

Rachel Fountain Eames is an academic and creative writer who holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK and has published work on nineteenth and twentieth century literature, modern visual art, and science. She can be found on twitter @rfeames.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Poetry and Physics The Age of
Revolutions: An Overview of Physics in the Period 1905-1945 Relativity
Theory The Emergence of Quanta Visualizing the Atom The Quantum Revolution
The New York Avant-Garde Four New York Poets Relative Measure: William
Carlos Williams's Einsteinian Poetics Cubist Poetics in Spring and All
(1923) Revising Relativity: The Second Version of 'St Francis Einstein of
the Daffodils' 'The only reality that we can know is MEASURE': Einstein in
Paterson Mina Loy's Energy Physics Parody Physics: Loy's Futurist Satires
Physics without Parody: 'Parturition' (1914) Loy's Atomic Spiritualism The
Man of Electric Vitality: Insel (1933-1936) Back to the Bomb: Rethinking
Atomic Dissolution the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven's Physical
Systems Dada's Cult of Indeterminacy Smashing Duchamp's Glass: The Baroness
Against the Dada Scientists Quantum Dissolution in Weimar Berlin 'Life is
science': Order Through Science in the Baroness's Later Poetry The Quantum
Poetics of Wallace Stevens and Max Planck The Visualizability Question and
the Poetic Image The Image in Superposition: Stevens and Surrealism
Stevens's Phantom Problem 'Invisible or visible or both': An Abstracted
Poetics Conclusion APPENDIX 1 - Parallel Timeline Bibliography