Wacior, Slawomir

Dr. Hab. Slawomir Wacior is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English and Commonwealth Literature at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. He received his Ph.D. from the Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland.

Explaining Imagism: The Imagist Movement in Poetry and Art

2007 0-7734-5427-6
In the present study, the innovative and cerebral poetry of the Imagist movement, which revolutionized modern English and American poetry, has been analyzed in its contextual and intertextual relationships with other arts. Consequently, the book is like the texts it attempts to investigate, a peculiar hybrid, a collage of three basic materials or analytical perspectives: an excerpt from an Imagist manifesto sketched out in handwriting (context), a torn out printed page from a first edition of Des Imagistes (text), and a photograph of a museum installation of a room devoted to Modernist art (intertext).