Michael H Whitworth

Reading Modernist Poetry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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. Reading Modernist Poetry 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 says in favour of considering what a poem does.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 527g
• ISBN-13: 9781405167314
• ISBN-10: 1405167319
• Artikelnr.: 30969158

Autorenporträt

Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide to Criticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review of English Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements.
1 Introduction.
Part I Subject Matter.
2 Reflexivity.
3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.
4 Explorations of Consciousness.
Part II Techniques.
5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.
6 The Sound of the Poem.
7 Allusion and Quotation.
8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.
9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.
10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.
11 Who is Speaking?
Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.
12 Form.
13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.
14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.
15 The Dramatic Monologue.
16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.
17 Modernist Endings.
18 Value and Evaluation.
Glossary.
Further Reading.
Index.

Rezensionen

"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and fullof innovative insights." (M/C Reviews, September2010)

"The impressive achievement of Reading Modernist Poetryisthat it so accessibly explains the poetry (including Yeats, Eliot,Pound and William Carlos Williams) and the very wide range oftheories that have been invoked to account for its complexity. Itsmethod is to start from the basics and then proceed in acommon-sense manner, and yet it uses that mode to explain why thepoetry rejects common sense and insists on the necessity ofdifficulty. The end result is not only a book that students will beable to use very fruitfully (and its comprehensive section on'Further Reading' will also help in this respect) but also agenuine contribution to the criticism of modernistliterature."
--Ian Gregson, Bangor University