Physics and the Modernist Avant-Garde
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-29982-5 (ISBN)
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.
Rachel Fountain Eames is an academic and creative writer who holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK, as has published work on 19th- and 20th-century literature, modern visual art, and science. She can be found on Twitter @rfeames.
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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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.01.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Explorations in Science and Literature |
| Zusatzinfo | 5 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-29982-0 / 1350299820 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-29982-5 / 9781350299825 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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