Whitworth, Michael H.

Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth. - Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xi; 237p.; NFIC

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781405167314

2009037996


English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc..--20th century
American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Reader-response criticism.
Poetry--Explication.
Modernism (Literature).

PR605.M63 / W47 2010

821/.9109112

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