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178914857X pdf A collection of highlights from Mary Ann Cawss long, highly distinguished career writing about literature, art, and modernism. Throughout her long, highly distinguished career writing about literature and art, Mary Ann Caws has excavated, illuminated, and examined in depth the most intriguing works and personalities of Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, and beyond. In these concise, but always colorful and insightful articles, Caws brings us fresh portraits of the most famous figures and introduces us to the writers and artists who merit more attention than theyve received, with a special focus on female writers and artists. The authors sensitivity to the intersections of eccentric literature and eccentric life infuses each critical essay with the human passions that these essential modernists lived. From Dickinson and Mallarm to Duchamp and Mina Loy, Caws applies the art of close looking to shrewdly framed slices of the modernist experience. Read more