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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450444203321

Autore

Sherry Vincent B

Titolo

The Great War and the language of modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Sherry

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003

ISBN

1-280-45229-3

9786610452293

0-19-802620-X

0-19-518055-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 395 p. ) : ill., ports

Disciplina

811/.5209358

Soggetti

World War, 1914-1918 - Great Britain - Literature and the war

Modernism (Literature) - Great Britain

Americans - Great Britain - History - 20th century

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Formerly CIP.

Originally published: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Liberal Measures: Prolegomenon to a Poetics of English Modernism -- I: Harmonic Politics -- II: The Journalistic Turn -- III: The Literary State -- IV: Critical Poetics -- INTERCHAPTER 1: Lessons for the Relative Alien -- 2 Pound's Savage Ratios -- I: Mimicry, with Differences -- II: The Student of Contemporary Mentality -- III: The Arranger of Inanities -- IV: Homage to Sextus Propertius -- V: Propoundius: His Aftermath -- VI: The Decay of This Generation -- INTERCHAPTER 2: Stein -- 3 Mr. Eliot's Wartime Services -- I: Oppositions, Repossessions, Performances -- II: English, in French -- III: Powers of Four -- IV: Sunday Morning Decadence -- V: Poetic Modernism -- VI: Pound, Eliot, and the Making of The Waste Land: Policing the Voices -- INTERCHAPTER 3: Ford -- 4 Woolf, Among the Modernists -- I: Voyaging Out -- II: Shorts -- III:



Jacob's Room -- IV: Mrs. Dalloway's Insubordinate Clause -- V: Unbracketed -- EPILOGUE: A Memory for Modernism, the New Critical Constructions, and This Awful Truth of Pseudotruth -- NOTES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. He recovers the political discourses of the British campaign, offering new readings of Woolf, Eliot and Pound.