Research Catalog

Title

A companion to modernist poetry / edited by David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chinitz, David
• McDonald, Gail

Description

xv, 603 pages; 26 cm

Summary

"Offering a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, A Companion to Modernist Poetry provides readers with detailed discussions of individual poets, 'schools' and 'movements' within modernist poetry, and the cultural and historical context of the modernist period. Provides an in-depth and accessible summary of the latest trends in the study of modernist poetry. Balances discussion of individual poets, 'schools', and 'movements' with in-depth literary and historical context. Brings recent scholarship to bear on the subject of modernist poetry while also providing guidance on poets who are historically important. Edited by highly respected and notable critics in the field who have a broad knowledge of current debates and of rising and senior scholars in the field." --

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 88

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 88.

Alternative Title

Modernist poetry

Subject

• 1900 - 1999
• English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > Great Britain
• Modernism (Literature) > United States
• Lyrik
• Englisch
• Moderne
• American poetry
• English poetry
• Modernism (Literature)
• Great Britain
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald -- Rhythm, form, and diction in modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth -- Part I: Influences and institutions -- Urbanism / Julia E. Daniel -- The visual arts / Leonard Diepeveen -- Music / Brad Bucknell -- Fiction / John Xiros Cooper -- Science and technology / Katy Price -- Popular culture / Michael Coyle -- Religion: Orthodoxies and alternatives / Lara Vetter -- Politics / Sascha Bru -- War and empire / Vincent Sherry -- Psychology and secularity / Gabrielle McIntire -- Symbolism and decadence / Barry J. Faulk -- The European Avant-Garde / Michael Levenson -- Little magazines / Suzanne W. Churchill -- Modernist criticism / Chris Baldick -- Part II: Groups and groupings -- The Georgian poets and the genteel tradition / Meredith Martin and Erin Kappeler -- The new poetry / John Timberman Newcomb -- Poetry of the Great War / Eve C. Sorum -- The Harlem Renaissance / Karen Jackson Ford -- The fugitives / Gail McDonald -- Modernist women poets / Miranda Hickman -- Left Poetry / Walter Kalaidjian -- Objectivism / Stephen Cope -- World modernist poetry in English / Omaar Hena -- Modernism: The next generation / Susan Rosenbaum -- Part III: Poets -- Thomas Hardy / Tim Armstrong -- W.B. Yeats / Steven Matthews -- Gertrude Stein / Susan Holbrook -- Robert Frost / Robert Faggen -- Wallace Stevens / Malcolm Woodland -- Mina Loy / Cristanne MIller -- William Carlos Williams / Christopher MacGowan -- D.H. Lawrence / Holly A. Laird -- Ezra Pound / Rebecca Beasley -- H.D. / Helen Sword -- Marianne Moore / Robin G. Schulze -- T.S. Eliot / Anthony Cuda -- Claude McKay / William J. Maxwell -- Edna St. Vincent Millay / Melissa Bradshaw -- Hugh MacDiarmid / Margery Palmer McCulloch -- E.E. Cummings / Michael Webster -- David Jones / Thomas Dilworth -- Melvin Tolson / Kathy Lou Schultz -- Hart Crane / Sunny Stalter-Pace -- Langston Hughes / David E. Chinitz -- W.H. Auden / Stan Smith -- Conclusion: Modernist poetry today -- Contemporary critical trends / Matthew Hofer.

Call Number

PR605.M63

ISBN

• 0470659815
• 9780470659816

OCLC

878860444

Title

A companion to modernist poetry / edited by David E. Chinitz and Gail McDonald.

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

Edition

[First edition].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 88

Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 88.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Chinitz, David, editor.

McDonald, Gail, editor.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR PR605.M63 C66 2014