Reading modernist poetry
By: Michael H. Whitworth.
Series: Blackwell reading poetry
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405167314
Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Reader-response criticism; Poetry -- Explication; Modernism (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness; title: Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking?; title: Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation.