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The Cambridge Introduction to modernist poetry /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-246) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139190312 1139190318 1139185411 9781139185417 9781139023863 1139023861 9781139187725 1139187724 1139179411 9781139179416 1107224845 9781107224841 1283378108 9781283378109 9786613378101 6613378100 1139183095 9781139183093 |