05463nam 2200721 a 450 991045044420332120211005075338.01-280-45229-397866104522930-19-802620-X0-19-518055-0(CKB)1000000000028804(StDuBDS)AH24085104(SSID)ssj0000165467(PQKBManifestationID)11152130(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165467(PQKBWorkID)10162660(PQKB)10544714(MiAaPQ)EBC3051834(MiAaPQ)EBC4705629(Au-PeEL)EBL3051834(CaPaEBR)ebr10084760(OCoLC)57404619(MiAaPQ)EBC241437(Au-PeEL)EBL4705629(CaONFJC)MIL45229(EXLCZ)99100000000002880420020427d2003 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrThe Great War and the language of modernism[electronic resource] /Vincent SherryNew York Oxford University Press20031 online resource (xiii, 395 p. ) ill., portsFormerly CIP.UkOriginally published: 2003.0-19-510176-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.With the expressions "Lost Generation" and "The Men of 1914," the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction? Does the literature we bring under this heading respond directly to that provocation, and, if so, what historical memories or revelations can be heard to stir in these words? Vincent Sherry reopens these long unanswered questions by focusing attention on the public culture of the English war. He reads the discourses through which the Liberal party constructed its cause, its Great Campaign. A breakdown in the established language of liberal modernity--the idioms of public reason and civic rationality--marked the sizable crisis this event represents in the mainstream traditions of post-Reformation Europe. If modernist writing characteristically attempts to challenge the standard values of Enlightenment rationalism, this study recovers the historical cultural setting of its most substantial and daring opportunity. And this moment was the occasion for great artistic innovations in the work of Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound. Combining the records of political journalism and popular intellectual culture with abundant visual illustration, Vincent Sherry provides the framework for new interpretations of the major texts of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound. With its relocation of the verbal imagination of modernism in the context of the English war, The Great War and the Language of Modernism restores the historical content and depth of this literature, revealing its most daunting import.World War, 1914-1918Great BritainLiterature and the warModernism (Literature)Great BritainAmericansGreat BritainHistory20th centuryAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)United StatesElectronic books.World War, 1914-1918Literature and the war.Modernism (Literature)AmericansHistoryAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)811/.5209358Sherry Vincent B603319MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450444203321Great war and the language of modernism1240837UNINA