Reading the Modernist Long Poem
Title | Reading the Modernist Long Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Brendan C. Gillott |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2020-12-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1501363808 |
How do readers approach the enigmatic and unnavigable modernist long poem? Taking as the form's exemplars the highly influential but critically contentious poetries of John Cage and Charles Olson, this book considers indeterminacy the fundamental feature of the long poem by way of its analogues in musicology, mycology, cybernetics and philosophy. It addresses features of these works that figure broadly in the long poem tradition, such as listing, typography, archives, mediation and mereology, while articulating how both poets broke with the longform poetic traditions of the early 1900s. Brendan C. Gillott argues for Cage's and Olson's centrality to these traditions in developing, critiquing and innovating on the longform poetics of the past, their work revolutionized the longform poetry of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Reading Modernist Poetry
Title | Reading Modernist Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Michael H. Whitworth |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2010-02-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9781444320763 |
This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating. Provides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others Considers key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion Explores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry Places modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors Encourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem says in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader
On the Modernist Long Poem
Title | On the Modernist Long Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Dickie |
Publisher | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem
Title | The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem PDF eBook |
Author | Oliver Tearle |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-04-04 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350027022 |
The Great War, The Waste Land and the Modernist Long Poem explores how cultural responses to the trauma of the First World War found expression in the form of the modernist long poem. Beginning with T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Oliver Tearle reads that most famous example of the genre in comparison with lesser known long poems, such as Hope Mirrlees's Paris: A Poem, Richard Aldington's A Fool I' the Forest and Nancy Cunard's Parallax. As well as presenting a new history of this neglected genre, the book examines the ways in which the modernist long poem represented the seminal literary form for grappling with the crises of European modernity in the wake of World War I.
Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Title | Anthology of Modern American Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Cary Nelson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 1249 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780195122701 |
Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.
Poetry and the Public
Title | Poetry and the Public PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Harrington |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2002-06-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0819565385 |
An informative account of the social meaning of poetry in the 20th century US.
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Davis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2007-07-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827642 |
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to 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.