Reading modernist poetry /
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 reade...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2010
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| Series: | Reading poetry.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.
