LEADER 05494nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910959916403321 005 20251116150651.0 010 $a1-280-45229-3 010 $a9786610452293 010 $a0-19-802620-X 010 $a0-19-518055-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000028804 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24085104 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000165467 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11152130 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165467 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10162660 035 $a(PQKB)10544714 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4705629 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051834 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10084760 035 $a(OCoLC)57404619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC241437 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4705629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL45229 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL241437 035 $a(OCoLC)707917752 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000028804 100 $a20020427d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Great War and the language of modernism /$fVincent Sherry 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2003 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 395 p. ) $cill., ports 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 08$a0-19-510176-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aVincent 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. 330 $bWith 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. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain$xLiterature and the war 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zGreat Britain 606 $aAmericans$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xLiterature and the war. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aAmericans$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 676 $a811/.5209358 700 $aSherry$b Vincent B$0603319 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959916403321 996 $aGreat war and the language of modernism$91240837 997 $aUNINA