Figures of Time
Title | Figures of Time PDF eBook |
Author | David Ben-Merre |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2018-02-01 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1438468342 |
Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.
Theorists of Modernist Poetry
Title | Theorists of Modernist Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Beasley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 157 |
Release | 2007-10-03 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1134451407 |
Exploring the work of T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound - this book offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement and demonstrates the impact of these influential theorists on the shape and value of English Literature.
On Modern Poetry
Title | On Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Mazzoni |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0674249038 |
Guido Mazzoni tells the story of poetry's revolution in the modern age. The chief transformation was the rise of the lyric as it is now conceived: a genre in which a first-person speaker talks about itself. Mazzoni argues that modern poetry embodies the age of the individual and has wrought profound changes in the expectations of readers.
The Structure of Modernist Poetry (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Structure of Modernist Poetry (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Hermans |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317637860 |
First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work concerns itself primarily with basic structural elements and techniques and the assumptions that underlie and determine the modernist mode of poetic writing. Particular attention is paid to the theories developed by authors and to the essential ‘principles of construction’ that shape the structure of their poetry. Considering the work of a number of modernist poets, Theo Hermans argues that the various widely divergent forms and manifestations of modernistic poetry writing can only be properly understood as part of one general trend.
Singing the Chaos
Title | Singing the Chaos PDF eBook |
Author | William Pratt |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780826210487 |
Combining both a historical and a critical approach toward the works of major British, American, French, German and Russian poets, this work surveys a century of high poetic achievement
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Title | From Modernism to Postmodernism PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Ashton |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2006-01-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139448595 |
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.
On Modern Poetry
Title | On Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Rowland Smith |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2012-07-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1441174222 |
Including applied readings, this book explores the divide between practical criticism and theory in 20th century criticism to propose a new way of reading poetry.