THE UNFRACTIONED IDIOM: HART CRANE AND MODERNISM (POETRY, TWENTIETH-CENTURY, VISUAL ARTS).
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Title
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THE UNFRACTIONED IDIOM: HART CRANE AND MODERNISM (POETRY, TWENTIETH-CENTURY, VISUAL ARTS).
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Identifier
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AAI8614656
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identifier
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8614656
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Creator
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BENNETT, MARIA FRANCES.
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Contributor
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Mary Ann Caws
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Date
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1986
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Comparative | Literature, American | Fine Arts
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Abstract
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This work attempts to place the figure of the American poet, Hart Crane, within the context of the literary and artistic movement known as Modernism. Most criticism of Crane, until this point, has focused on either a close reading of his poetry, a psychological analysis of his emotional problems vis-a-vis his life's often-cited "interference" with his work, or a study of the function of certain central symbols in his poetry. In a comparative manner, this work attempts to examine Crane's poetry as it may be related to aspects of Modernism such as Cubist aesthetics, the development of film and jazz techniques, and Crane's intense involvement with Steiglitz and photographic innovation. Forming roughly half of this work, the Crane/Modernist "connection" is deepened by an examining of Crane's relationship to two extremely important figures in the early development of Modernist aesthetics: Rimbaud and Baudelaire. The metaphors of erotic experience and the sea-voyage, in their function as agents of transformation and emblems of the threshold experience central to Modernism, will be focused on, as well as, in the work's conclusion, their final figuration in Crane's tour-de-force, The Bridge.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Comparative Literature
