The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork. Lee M. Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork. Klappentext A comprehensive and accessible overview of modernist poetry! its forms! its major authors and its contexts. Zusammenfassung This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult! these essays will help students understand and enjoy their experimental! playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Introduction Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins; Part I. Contexts: 1. Modernist poetry in history David Ayers; 2. Schools, movements and manifestoes Paul Peppis; 3. The poetics of modernism Peter Nicholls; 4. Gender, sexuality and the modernist poem Christanne Miller; Part II. Authors and Alliances: 5. Pound or Eliot: whose era? Lawrence Rainey; 6. HD and revisionary mythmaking Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 7. Yeats, Ireland, modernism Anne Fogarty; 8. Modernist poetry in the British Isles Drew Milne; 9. US modernism I. Moore, Stevens and the modernist lyric Bonnie Costello; 10. US modernism II. The other tradition: Williams, Zukofsky, Olson Mark Scroggins; 11. The poetry of the Harlem Renaissance Sharon L. Jones; 12. Caliban's modernity: postcolonial poetry of Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean Jahan Ramazani; Part III. Receptions: 13. Modernist poetry and the canon Jason Harding; Guide to further reading; Index.

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• Authors: Alex Davis, Lee M Jenkins
• Assisted by: Alex Davis (Editor), Alex (University College Cork) Davis (Editor), Lee M. Jenkins (Editor), Lee M. (University College Cork) Jenkins (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2007
• EAN: 9780521618151
• ISBN: 978-0-521-61815-1
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge companion
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies