Modern Poetry After Modernism

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195356359

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Modern Poetry after Modernism by James Longenbach Pdf

In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur--Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid- century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see. In the process, Longenbach allows readers to experience the wide variety of poetries written in our time-- without asking us to choose between them.

Author : Robert McDowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015045686014

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Poetry After Modernism by Robert McDowell Pdf

Poetry After Modernism, Story Line's most successful anthology of criticism, was recognized and widely praised for raising the level of discourse on poetry. This expanded edition retains seven original essays and adds seven new pieces. As editor Robert McDowell points out, Poets who can write good critical prose from distinctive points of view are the most reliable guides to the news we need to hear most.

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674399471

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A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins Pdf

This study of British and American poetry from the mid-1920s to the recent past, clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements, and the contexts in which the poets worked.

Author : John A.F. Hopkins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527549104

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The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry by John A.F. Hopkins Pdf

With something of a poetry renaissance currently under way worldwide, there is now, more than ever, a need for a solidly-based methodology for interpreting poems: something more empirical than traditional ‘lit-crit’ approaches, and something more linguistically-informed than the version of ‘postmodernism’ rampant in certain Anglophone universities. The latter approach, which tends to allow the individual reader to do what he/she likes with a poetic text, is inadequate to interpret modernist poetry, whose English-language precursors may be found in the late Romantics; its pioneers were already writing (in France) as early as 1840. What is so different about the modernists? Most importantly, their works are monumental, in that they are strongly resistant to deconstruction. Contributing to this resistance is the fact that they are built around two deep-level propositions, each of which generates a set of indirectly-signifying images, sharing the same internal structure, but having a different vocabulary. Thus, they do not signify according to linear narrative, but according to these propositions—and the relation between them—which may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of images on the textual surface. Every text—as subject-sign—refers to an intertextual object-sign, which is usually another poem, but may also be a film or other form of art. Mediating between these two signs is their reader-constructed interpretant, which completes the semiotic triad. As this book shows, the novelty of this sign is thrown into relief by the contrast it makes with a lexical counterpart from the reader’s experience, which differs from the interpretant in structure. The book’s inclusion of French and Japanese, as well as English poems, shows that deep-level signifying mechanisms may well be universal, with considerable research and pedagogical implications.

Author : Rebecca Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134451401

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Theorists of Modernist Poetry by Rebecca Beasley Pdf

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform. Tracing the complex theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca Beasley examines: the aesthetic modes and theories that formed a context for modernism the influence of contemporary philosophical movements the modernist critique of democracy the importance of the First World War modernism’s programmes for social reform. This volume offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement, as well as demonstrating the deep influence of the three poets on the shape and values of the discipline of English Literature itself. Theorists of Modernist Poetry is relevant not only to students of modernism, but to all those with an interest in why we study, teach, read and evaluate literature the way we do.

Author : Albert Gelpi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107025240

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American Poetry after Modernism by Albert Gelpi Pdf

Albert Gelpi's American Poetry after Modernism is a study of sixteen major American poets of the postwar period, from Robert Lowell to Adrienne Rich. Gelpi argues that a distinctly American poetic tradition was solidified in the later half the twentieth century, thus severing it from British conventions.

Author : Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139502320

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The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry by Peter Howarth Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Graves,Laura Riding Jackson
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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A Survey of Modernist Poetry by Robert Graves,Laura Riding Jackson Pdf

Author : David Ben-Merre
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781438468334

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Figures of Time by David Ben-Merre Pdf

Focuses on how nuances of poetic form alter how we have come to understand cultural aspects of time. Figures of Time proposes radically new ideas about the very poetic ground of culture. Presenting unique close readings of six modern poets—Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, and T. S. Eliot—David Ben-Merre brings recent theoretical questions about the rhetoric of modernism and poetic figuration into current discussions in critical theory. He argues that poetic spaces, often disjunctions of sound and sense, disrupt our culturally inherited notions of time, reimagining with an often irrational and anachronistic backward glance what we take to be historical chronologies, psychological perceptions of time, and collective scripts about causality.

Author : Bartholomew Brinkman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781421421346

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Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print by Bartholomew Brinkman Pdf

Coda: Remaking Poetic Modernism after a Culture of Mass Print -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Author : Bob Perelman
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817358891

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Modernism the Morning After by Bob Perelman Pdf

In Modernism the Morning After, Bob Perelman scrutinizes a number of long-held modernist dogmas in order to articulate a more capacious model for thinking about modernism-past, present, and future. Throughout his career, Perelman has focused on the persistence of modernist ambition in poetry, with all of its admirable articulations and tragicomic short-circuits. Poetry, it turns out, is not simply "news that stays news," as Ezra Pound postulated. Instead, as Perelman demonstrates, poetry often gropes toward whatever news can be found in the broader contexts of public speech-the cultural commons, the almost-real or much-too-real language of people and our hyperactive media. Book jacket.

Author : David Perkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674399455

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A History of Modern Poetry by David Perkins Pdf

This book embraces an era of enormous creative variety--the formative period during which the Romantic traditions of the past were abandoned or transformed and a major new literature created. More than a hundred poets are treated in this volume, and many more are noticed in passing.

Author : Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107038677

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A History of Modernist Poetry by Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins Pdf

A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period. The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Marianne Moore, as well as key movements such as Imagism, Objectivism, and the Harlem Renaissance. This book also addresses the impact of both World Wars on experimental poetries and the crucial role of magazines in disseminating and proselytizing on behalf of poetic modernism. The collection concludes with a wide-ranging discussion of the inheritance of modernism in recent writing on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author : Charles Altieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521330858

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Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry by Charles Altieri Pdf

Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealizing principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarmé, to T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cézanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.

Author : Rebecca Beasley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134451395

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Theorists of Modernist Poetry by Rebecca Beasley Pdf

Modernist poetry heralded a radical new aesthetic of experimentation, pioneering new verse forms and subjects, and changing the very notion of what it meant to be a poet. This volume examines T.S. Eliot, T.E. Hulme and Ezra Pound, three of the most influential figures of the modernist movement, and argues that we cannot dissociate their bold, inventive poetic forms from their profoundly engaged theories of social and political reform. Tracing the complex theoretical foundations of modernist poetics, Rebecca Beasley examines: the aesthetic modes and theories that formed a context for modernism the influence of contemporary philosophical movements the modernist critique of democracy the importance of the First World War modernism’s programmes for social reform. This volume offers invaluable insight into the modernist movement, as well as demonstrating the deep influence of the three poets on the shape and values of the discipline of English Literature itself. Theorists of Modernist Poetry is relevant not only to students of modernism, but to all those with an interest in why we study, teach, read and evaluate literature the way we do.