News of War - Civilian Poetry 1936-1945

A new work of scholarship that considers several of the most prominent poets writing from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter One: Flesh Made Word: César Vallejo and the Spanish Civil War


• Chapter Two: W.H. Auden: Rushing to the Pumps, or Not, in Spain and China


• Chapter Three: W.H. Auden during World War II


• Chapter Four: Wallace Stevens in a "Sudden Time"


• Chapter Five: Raymond Queneau, Reading the Poor Paper


• Chapter Six: Marianne Moore and the Eyewitness Bind


• Chapter Seven: Gertrude Stein and the War She Saw


• Epilogue


• Works Cited

About the author

Rachel Galvin is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. She is a scholar, poet, and translator. Her essays appear in Boston Review, Comparative Literature Studies, ELH, Jacket 2, Los Angeles Review of Books, MLN, and Modernism/modernity.

Summary

A new work of scholarship that considers several of the most prominent poets writing from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II.

Additional text

In this compelling book about poets who wrote during the Spanish Civil War and World War II-Auden, Stevens, Moore, Vallejo, Queneau, and Stein-Rachel Galvin explores how these noncombatant writers earned, demonstrated, and anchored their authority for writing about war. With her astute analysis of wartime poetry's self-reflexivity, self-interruptions, and self-understanding, Galvin has written a richly insightful book that ranges across national and linguistic lines, and that illuminates both the historical contexts and the formal nuances of the poems. Everyone interested in poetry's relation to the violent realities of the twentieth century will benefit from this valuable book.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Galvin, Rachel (Assistant Professor of English Galvin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780190087630
• ISBN: 978-0-19-008763-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Spain, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Second World War, Literary studies: poetry & poets, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Modern warfare, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 (Spanish Civil War period), Literary studies: poetry and poets, Civil wars, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General