Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922
Title Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895–1922 PDF eBook
Author Sarah Parker
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 241
Release 2024-02-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1003853641

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While W. B. Yeats’s influential account of the ‘Tragic Generation’ claims that most fin-de-siècle poets died, or at least stopped writing, shortly after 1900, this book explodes this narrative by attending to the twentieth-century poetry produced by women poets Alice Meynell, Michael Field (Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper), Dollie Radford, and Katharine Tynan. While primarily associated with the late nineteenth century, these poets were active in the twentieth century, but their later writing is overlooked in modernist-dominated studies, partly due to this poetry’s adherence to traditional form. This book reveals that these poets, far from being irrelevant to modernity, used these established forms to address contemporary concerns, including suffrage, sexuality, motherhood, and the First World War. The chapters focus on Meynell’s manipulations of metre to contemplate temporality and literary tradition; Michael Field’s use of blank verse to portray the conflicted modern woman; Radford’s adaptation of the aesthetic song-like lyric to tackle the experience of the city, urban crime, and suffrage; and Tynan’s employment of the ballad to soothe bereaved mothers during the First World War. This book ultimately shows that traditional forms played a vital role in shaping mature women poets’ responses to modernity, illuminating debates about form, tradition, and gender in twentieth-century poetry.

Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies

Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies
Title Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies PDF eBook
Author Francesca Bratton
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 288
Release
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ISBN 3031625420

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George Egerton

George Egerton
Title George Egerton PDF eBook
Author Isobel Sigley
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 323
Release 2024-11-26
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1040216889

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George Egerton: Terra Incognitas is the first published work to focus solely on Egerton and her literary legacy. It covers the range and extent of Egerton's life and literary career from her emergence into the milieu of London publishing in 1893 to her dramatic works (both original and in translation) and their performance history into the 1920s. This work is an essential addition to ongoing recovery projects and is the first to focus on her 'lost' and unpublished works, mentorship of younger writers, her experiments with characterisations and themes, sociopolitical stances, innovations with form and content, and ultimately, her literary legacy. In doing so, George Egerton: Terra Incognitas reassesses Egerton's broader contribution to fin-de-siècle and early-twentieth-century literature and drama and repositions her as among the most important of the literary innovators of period, and a noteworthy precursor to later female literary modernisers, including Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Richardson, Elizabeth Bowen and Virginia Woolf.

Uncanny Fairy Tales

Uncanny Fairy Tales
Title Uncanny Fairy Tales PDF eBook
Author Francesca Arnavas
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 233
Release 2024-05-31
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1040028241

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There are fairy tales that surprise, destabilise, or even shock us: these are uncanny fairy tales that manipulate familiar stories in creative and bewildering ways in order to express new meanings. This work analyses these tales, basing its approach on a reformulation of Freud’s concept of the uncanny. Through a cognitive outlook the employed theoretical framework provides new perspectives on the study of experimental literary fairy tales. Considering English-language literature, complex and unsettling reinterpretations of the fairy-tale discourse began to appear during the Victorian Age, later resurfacing as a postmodern trend. This research individuates uncanny-related narrative techniques and cognitive responses as means to decodify and explore these tales, and as ways to discover unseen connections between Victorian and postmodern texts. The new theorisation of the uncanny is linked with three subconcepts: mirror, hybridity, and wonder, which function as tools to describe and investigate the cognitive and emotional entanglements characterising enigmatic and disorienting fairy tales.

You Work Tomorrow

You Work Tomorrow
Title You Work Tomorrow PDF eBook
Author John Marsh
Publisher University of Michigan Press
Pages 248
Release 2007
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 9780472050000

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The first-ever anthology of American labor poetry of the Great Depression

A Reference Guide to Latin American History

A Reference Guide to Latin American History
Title A Reference Guide to Latin American History PDF eBook
Author James D. Henderson
Publisher M.E. Sharpe
Pages 626
Release 2000
Genre Latin America
ISBN 1563247445

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A guide to Latin American history includes a chronology of key events from pre-Columbian history through the present, a thematic survey following each topic (economic change, cultural development, politics and government) across time, and 300 biographies of Latin Americans throughout history.

British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960

British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960
Title British Music and Modernism, 1895-1960 PDF eBook
Author Matthew Riley
Publisher Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Pages 350
Release 2010
Genre Music
ISBN 9780754665854

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Imaginative analytical and critical work on British music of the early twentieth century has been hindered by perceptions of the repertory as insular in its references and backward in its style and syntax, escaping the modernity that surrounded its composers. Recent research has begun to break down these perceptions and has found intriguing links between British music and modernism. This book brings together contributions from scholars working in analysis, hermeneutics, reception history, critical theory and the history of ideas. Three overall themes emerge from its chapters: accounts of British reactions to Continental modernism and the forms they took; links between music and the visual arts; and analysis and interpretation of compositions in the light of recent theoretical work on form, tonality and pitch organization