1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910815187603321

Autore

Whitworth Michael H

Titolo

Reading modernist poetry / / Michael H. Whitworth

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55079-9

9786612550799

1-4443-2075-0

1-4443-2076-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Blackwell reading poetry

Disciplina

821/.9109112

Soggetti

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)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reading Modernist Poetry; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Subject Matter; 2 Reflexivity; 3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts; 4 Explorations of Consciousness; Part II Techniques; 5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives; 6 The Sound of the Poem; 7 Allusion and Quotation; 8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue; 9 Literal and Metaphorical Language; 10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis; 11 Who is Speaking?; Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation; 12 Form; 13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric

14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric15 The Dramatic Monologue; 16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem; 17 Modernist Endings; 18 Value and Evaluation; Glossary; Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 othersConsiders key techniques employed to orient and



disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusionExplores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetryPlaces modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessorsEncourages readers to engage with the texts

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910812633603321

Autore

Bongang Benn L. <1955->

Titolo

The United States and the United Nations : congressional funding and U.N. reform / / Benn L. Bongang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-59332-307-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Law and society

Disciplina

341.23/73

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-213) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The League of Nations and the United States -- The league of nations and the United Nations -- The Third World bloc in the United Nations -- Anti-Americanism in the United Nations -- Funding United Nations reform -- Ambivalence towards the United Nations.