Reading modernist poetry /

Reading modernist poetry /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Whitworth, Michael H.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
Series:Reading poetry.
Subjects:
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)
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.