The Great War and the language of modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Sherry
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Sherry Vincent B
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| Titolo: |
The Great War and the language of modernism [[electronic resource] /] / Vincent Sherry
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 395 p. ) : ill., ports |
| Disciplina: | 811/.5209358 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Great war and the language of modernism |
| ISBN: | 1-280-45229-3 |
| 9786610452293 | |
| 0-19-802620-X | |
| 0-19-518055-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910783368903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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