Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth.
By: Whitworth, Michael H.
Contributor(s): Whitworth, Michael H.
Publisher: Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010Description: xi; 237p.ISBN: 9781405167314.Subject(s): English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc | Reader-response criticism | Poetry -- Explication | Modernism (Literature)DDC classification: 821/.9109112
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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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.
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