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Reading Modernist Poetry


Reading Modernist Poetry


Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry 1. Aufl.

von: Michael H. Whitworth

32,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 12.02.2010
ISBN/EAN: 9781444320763
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 250

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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. <ul> <li>Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others</li> <li>Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion</li> <li>Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry</li> <li>Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors</li> <li>Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem <i>says</i> in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader</li> </ul>
Preface and Acknowledgements. <p>1 Introduction.</p> <p><b>Part I Subject Matter.</b></p> <p>2 Reflexivity.</p> <p>3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.</p> <p>4 Explorations of Consciousness.</p> <p><b>Part II Techniques.</b></p> <p>5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.</p> <p>6 The Sound of the Poem.</p> <p>7 Allusion and Quotation.</p> <p>8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.</p> <p>9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.</p> <p>10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.</p> <p>11 Who is Speaking?</p> <p><b>Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.</b></p> <p>12 Form.</p> <p>13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.</p> <p>14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.</p> <p>15 The Dramatic Monologue.</p> <p>16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.</p> <p>17 Modernist Endings.</p> <p>18 Value and Evaluation.</p> <p>Glossary.</p> <p>Further Reading.</p> <p>Index.</p>
"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and full of innovative insights."  (<i>M/C Reviews</i>, September 2010)<br /> <br />
<b>Michael H. Whitworth</b> is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of <i>Einstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature</i> (2001) and <i>Virginia Woolf</i> (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited <i>Modernism: A Guide to Criticism</i> (2007), and he is an editor of the <i>Review of English Studies</i>.
This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement  that is considered to be difficult and intimidating. Through close examination of poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others, the book examines the literary forms and structures, and wider cultural context for modernist poetry, as well as the ideological implications of subject matter, and key techniques, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion. <p>Readers are encouraged to engage with the texts, to form their own interpretations, and to understand that the difficulty of modernist poetry is used to create meaning. <i>Reading Modernist Poetry</i> demonstrates that the ambiguities of the text do not necessarily need to be resolved in favour of one interpretation or another.  Rather, readers are encouraged to move away from the question of what a poem <i>says</i> in favour of considering what a poem <i>does</i>.</p>
"The impressive achievement of <i>Reading Modernist Poetry</i>is that it so accessibly explains the poetry (including Yeats, Eliot, Pound and William Carlos Williams) and the very wide range of theories that have been invoked to account for its complexity. Its method is to start from the basics and then proceed in a common-sense manner, and yet it uses that mode to explain why the poetry rejects common sense and insists on the necessity of difficulty. The end result is not only a book that students will be able to use very fruitfully (and its comprehensive section on 'Further Reading' will also help in this respect) but also a genuine contribution to the criticism of modernist literature."<br /> —<b>Ian Gregson</b>, <i>Bangor University</i>

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