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 others; Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion; Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry; Places modernist poetry in relation to its…

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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 others; Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion; Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry; Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors; Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their ow.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
  • Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

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

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781444320763, 1444320769, 9781405167314, 1405167319
  • oclc:ocn605037821
  • 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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