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Demonstrates the degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters - 'black riders' on a blank page - that create language for the eye. This book sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design.

Table of Contents
List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson3Pt. 1A Revolution of the Word431"Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris452Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)76Pt. 2Dichtung und Wahrheit1193The Truth of Poetry. An Argument1214The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue)151Afterword176Notes181Index191

Black Riders The Visible Language of Modernism

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: 06/06/1993
      ISBN13: 9780691015446, 978-0691015446
      ISBN10: 0691015449
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Demonstrates the degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters - 'black riders' on a blank page - that create language for the eye. This book sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design.

      Table of Contents
      List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modernism and the Renaissance of Printing, with Particular Reference to the Writing of Yeats, Stein, and Dickinson3Pt. 1A Revolution of the Word431"Thing to Mind": The Materialist Aesthetic of William Morris452Composition as Explanation (of Modern and Postmodern Poetries)76Pt. 2Dichtung und Wahrheit1193The Truth of Poetry. An Argument1214The Poetry of Truth. A Dialogue (on Dialogue)151Afterword176Notes181Index191

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