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This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Other Authors: Malcolm, Jane (Editor), Heffernan, Laura (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
poetry.
Poesie.
Poetry as Topic
Poetry
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; We Must Be Barbaric: An Introduction to Contemporaries and Snobs; 1. Poetry and the Literary Universe; I. Shame of the Person; II. Poetry, Out of Employment, Writes on Unemployment; III. Escapes from the Zeitgeist; IV. Poetic Reality and Critical Unreality; V. Poetry and Progress; VI. The Higher Snobbism; 2. E. Hulme, the New Barbarism, and Gertrude Stein; 3. The Facts in the Case of Monsieur Poe; Editors' Notes; Chronological Bibliography; Index.

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