Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the later works of Virginia Woolf! T. S. Eliot! Gertrude Stein and Wyndham Lewis through the theme of transience. Its central argument is that these authors built their later writings around the question of what it means to be mortal in a chaotic era. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: John Whittier Ferguson, John Whittier-Ferguson, John (University of Michigan Whittier-Ferguson, Whittier-Ferguson John
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9781107687424
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68742-4
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 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