Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature

This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers.

List of contents

1. 'Old timber to new fires': T. S. Eliot's Christian poetry; 2. 'Once out of nature': Gertrude Stein and the fashioning of war; 3. 'Almost real': Wyndham Lewis and the Second World War; 4. Conclusion: aftermaths and aesthetic form.

About the author

John Whittier-Ferguson is a Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound (1996) and the co-editor, with A. Walton Litz and Richard Ellmann, of James Joyce: Poems and Shorter Writings (1991).

Product details

• Authors: John Whittier-Ferguson, John (University of Michigan Whittier-Ferguson, Whittier-Ferguson John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107060012
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06001-2
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 238 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, British Isles, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000