Great War Modernists - D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington

Taking 44 Mecklenburgh Square as the focal point and springboard for a critical group study of D.H. Lawrence, H.D. and Richard Aldington, this book offers a fresh perspective on the relationship of modernist biofiction and poetry to the literature of the First World War. A group that Perdita Schaffner described as ''another Bloomsbury set'', the Mecklenburgh Square writers, like the Bloomsbury Group proper, ''lived in squares'' and ''loved in triangles'', in Dorothy Parker''s famous formulation. Geographically adjacent, these sets intersected socially and, at points, in their aesthetics: both practiced innovative forms of what may broadly be defined as ''life writing''. But, demarcating the Mecklenburgh Square writers from the Bloomsbury Set, the former had its origins in the transatlantic avant-garde: Lawrence. H.D., Aldington (and John Cournos) were all associated with Imagism, the poetic movement which instantiated Anglo-American modernism. Considered as a pro-tem collective, these four poets, all of whom were also novelists and translators, contest the binaries that still obtain between modernist and First World War writing. This group study of Lawrence, H.D., Aldington and Cournos tracks the transition of Imagism from a pre-war mode to a war poetics which includes but is not confined to the trench lyric and it traces, in the transtextual relations between the Mecklenburgh Square novels, the traumatic imprint of the war on modernist life writing.>

Product details

• Authors: Lee M Jenkins, Lee M. Jenkins, Jenkins Lee M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2024
• EAN: 9781350285330
• ISBN: 978-1-350-28533-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Historicizing Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form