William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Painting

by Terence Diggory

Book Overview

In Peter Brueghel's painting The Adoration of the Kings , the depiction of Joseph and Mary suggested to William Carlos Williams a paradigm for the relationship between poem and painting, reader and text, man and woman, that he had sought throughout his life to establish: a marriage that can acknowledge and withstand infidelity. Here Terence Diggory explores the meaning of this paradigm within the context of Williams's career and also of recent critical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068526
• ISBN13: 9780691068527
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"