Whitworth, Michael H.

Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - 237 p. - Reading poetry .

Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness -- Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation. HKBU library

YT2025 M09

9781405167314 1405167319


English poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
American poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--20th century
Reader-response criticism.
Poetry--Explication.
Modernism (Literature)

PR605 / W582 R 2010