The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image

215 Pages·1998·24.39 MB·English

by  Theodore Ziolkowski

THE VIEW FROM THE TOWER

Theodore Ziolkowski
The View from
the Tower
ORIGINS OF AN
ANTIMODERNIST
IMAGE
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Ziolkowski, Theodore.
The view from the tower : origins of an antimodernist
image / Theodore Ziolkowski.
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includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-691-05907-1 (alk. paper)
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ix
PREFACE xi
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
CHAPTER ONE
The Proud Towers 3
CHAPTER TWO
William Butler Teats: The Tower of Visions 41
CHAPTER THREE
Robinson Feffers: The Tower beyond Time 69
CHAPTER FOUR
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Tower of Desire 97
CHAPTER FIVE
Carl Gustav Fung: The Tower of the Psyche 131
CHAPTER SIX
The Broken Towers 149
NOTES 175
INDEX 191

ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel 4
2. Babylon of Nebuchadnezzar II 9
3. Saint Barbara with Tower 16
4. Campanile of Sant'ApoUinare in Classe, Ravenna 18
5. Bamberg Cathedral 20
6. Chartres Cathedral 20
7. Minster of Our Gracious Lady, Ulm 21
8. Athanasius Kircher, Turris Babel 22
9. Hermann Hugo, Pia Desideria 24
10. Samuel Palmer, The Lonely Tower 24
11. Ivory-tower reliquary 32
12. Thoor Ballylee 42
13. Hawk Tower 70
14. Hawk Tower and Tor House 76
15. Robinson Jeffers at Hawk Tower 92
16. Chateau de Muzot 98
17. Auguste Rodin, La Tour du Travail 104
18. Tower of St.-Niklaas, Veurne 107
19. Rainer Maria Rilke on the balcony at Muzot 120
20. The first tower at Bollingen 132
21. The tower-complex at Bollingen 140
22. Carl Gustav Jung at Bollingen 147
23. The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Berlin 150
24. The tower at Sissinghurst Castle 166
25. Prayer tower at Oral Roberts University 173