War Trauma and English Modernism - T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

Informationen zum Autor CARL KROCKEL completed a Ph.D. at the University of East Anglia which was later published by Rodopi as The Politics of Influence: D.H. Lawrence and German Culture . He taught at the University of East Anglia, and was a Visiting Professor at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is currently working on a book on contemporary poetry and global politics. Klappentext This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to consistently read English Modernist literature as testimony to trauma of the First and Second World Wars. Focusing upon T.S. Eliot and D.H. Lawrence, it examines the impact of war upon their lives and their strategies to resist it through literary innovation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow Testimony before Trauma: Eliot's Poetry up to 1915 Testimony as History: The First 'Women in Love' Eliot's War Poetry: Hysteria to The Waste Land Working Through: Lawrence 1918 to 1930 Trauma Transfigured: The Hollow Men to Little Gidding Conclusion: The Legacy of War on the Legacy of Modernism Bibliography Index

List of contents

Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Modernism in Crisis: The Rainbow Testimony before Trauma: Eliot's Poetry up to 1915 Testimony as History: The First 'Women in Love' Eliot's War Poetry: Hysteria to The Waste Land Working Through: Lawrence 1918 to 1930 Trauma Transfigured: The Hollow Men to Little Gidding Conclusion: The Legacy of War on the Legacy of Modernism Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: C Krockel, C. Krockel, Carl Krockel
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349332052
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33205-2
• No. of pages: 252
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Fiction & related items, Poetry, Fiction, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Fiction Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy