Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Peter Howarth is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Klappentext A guide to reading modernist poetry in English: its pleasures! frustrations! powers and problems. Zusammenfassung An introduction to the forms! politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English! for students and readers new to it. As well as concise! penetrating accounts of individual poets' work! it includes chapters on avant-gardism! deliberately difficult art and the modernist/postmodernist divide. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Why write like this?; 2. Ezra Pound; 3. T. S. Eliot; 4. W. B. Yeats; 5. Modernist America: Williams, Moore, Stevens; 6. Avant-gardism: Loy, Stein, H. D.; 7. Why is it so difficult?; 8. Inside and outside modernism; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Howarth, Peter (Queen Mary University of London) Howarth, Howarth Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.11.2011
• EAN: 9780521764476
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76447-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets