Reading modernist poetry

Reading modernist poetry

by Whitworth, Michael H.

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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 Victor…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth.

Summary

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 interpre.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
  • Place of Publication:Malden, MA
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 237 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781444320756, 1444320750, 1282550799, 9781282550797, 1405167319, 9781405167314
  • DOI:10.1002/9781444320756
  • oclc:ocn587391482
  • LC Classification:PR605.M63
  • Dewey Decimal:821/.9109112

Table of Contents

Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness -- Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation.

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Subjects

American poetry -- History and criticis… Criticism, interpretation, etc English poetry -- History and criticism… Esthétique de la réception Modernism (Literature) Modernisme (Littérature) Poésie -- Explication de texte Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… Poésie anglaise -- Histoire et critique… POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel… Poetry -- Explication Reader-response criticism

Writers

Whitworth, Michael H.

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