"Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and...

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1. Verfasser:	Howarth, Peter 1973- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge ; New York Cambridge University Press 2012
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge introductions to literature
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1900-1960 Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism Modernism (Literature) Lyrik Moderne Englisch
Online-Zugang:	KUBA1
Zusammenfassung:	"Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English"--
Beschreibung:	x, 264 p