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Reading Modernist Poetry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Michael H. Whitworth, UK) Whitworth, Michael H. (University of Oxford, Michael H Whitworth

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This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and othersConsiders key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusionExplores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetryPlaces modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessorsEncourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader

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Utgivningsdatum2010-04-13
Mått165 x 239 x 25 mm
Vikt535 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWiley Blackwell Reading Poetry
Antal sidor250
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781405167314

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Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide to Criticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review of English Studies.

Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction.Part I Subject Matter.2 Reflexivity.3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.4 Explorations of Consciousness.Part II Techniques.5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.6 The Sound of the Poem.7 Allusion and Quotation.8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.11 Who is Speaking?Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.12 Form.13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.15 The Dramatic Monologue.16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.17 Modernist Endings.18 Value and Evaluation.Glossary.Further Reading.Index.