A companion to modernist poetry /

A companion to modernist poetry / edited by David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald. - 1st ed. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2014. - 1 online resource (xv, 603 pages). - Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture ; 88 . - Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 88. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Rhythm, Form, and Diction in Modernist Poetry / Michael H Whitworth -- Influences and Institutions. Urbanism / Julia E Daniel -- The Visual Arts / Leonard Diepeveen -- Music / Brad Bucknell -- Fiction / John Xiros Cooper -- Science and Technology / Katy Price -- Popular Culture / Michael Coyle -- Religion: Orthodoxies and Alternatives / Lara Vetter -- Politics / Sascha Bru -- War and Empire / Vincent Sherry -- Psychology and Sexuality / Gabrielle McIntire -- Symbolism and Decadence / Barry J Faulk -- The European Avant-Garde / Michael Levenson -- Little Magazines / Suzanne W Churchill -- Modernist Criticism / Chris Baldick -- Groups and Groupings. The Georgian Poets and the Genteel Tradition / Meredith Martin, Erin Kappeler -- The New Poetry / John Timberman Newcomb -- Poetry of the Great War / Eve C Sorum -- The Harlem Renaissance / Karen Jackson Ford -- The Fugitives / Gail McDonald -- Modernist Women Poets / Miranda Hickman -- Left Poetry / Walter Kalaidjian -- Objectivism / Stephen Cope -- World Modernist Poetry in English / Omaar Hena -- Modernism: The Next Generation / Susan Rosenbaum -- Poets. Thomas Hardy / Tim Armstrong -- W.B. Yeats / Steven Matthews -- Gertrude Stein / Susan Holbrook -- Robert Frost / Robert Faggen -- Wallace Stevens / Malcolm Woodland -- Mina Loy / Cristanne Miller -- William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan -- D.H. Lawrence / Holly A Laird -- Ezra Pound / Rebecca Beasley -- H.D. / Helen Sword -- Marianne Moore / Robin G Schulze -- T.S. Eliot / Anthony Cuda -- Claude McKay / William J Maxwell -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / Melissa Bradshaw -- Hugh MacDiarmid / Margery Palmer McCulloch -- E.E. Cummings / Michael Webster -- David Jones / Thomas Dilworth -- Melvin Tolson / Kathy Lou Schultz -- Hart Crane / Sunny Stalter-Pace -- Langston Hughes / David E Chinitz -- W.H. Auden / Stan Smith -- Conclusion: Modernist Poetry Today. Contemporary Critical Trends / Matthew Hofer.

Offering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, 'schools' and 'movements' within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period. Provides an in-depth and accessible summary of the latest trends in the study of modernist poetryBalances discussion of individual poets, 'schools', and 'movements' with in-depth literary and historical contextBrings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while als.



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Modernism (Literature)
American poetry--History and criticism.
English poetry--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American poetry.
English poetry.
Modernism (Literature)


Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PR603 / .C384 2014

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