{"product_id":"reading-modernist-poetry-isbn-9781405167314","title":"Reading Modernist Poetry","description":"This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement often regarded as difficult and intimidating.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides close examinations of key poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders key techniques employed to orient and disorient the reader, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the ideological implications of subject matter and the literary forms and structures of modernist poetry\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces modernist poetry in relation to its Victorian and Romantic predecessors\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEncourages readers to engage with the texts and make their own interpretations, moving away from the question of what the poem \u003ci\u003esays\u003c\/i\u003e in favour of considering the effect of the poem on its reader\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface and Acknowledgements.  \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Subject Matter.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Reflexivity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Explorations of Consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Techniques.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Sound of the Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Allusion and Quotation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Who is Speaking?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Form.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Dramatic Monologue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Modernist Endings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Value and Evaluation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFurther Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and full of innovative insights.\"  (\u003ci\u003eM\/C Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, September 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eMichael H. Whitworth\u003c\/b\u003e is University Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEinstein?s Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003c\/i\u003e (2005), and of other articles and chapters on modernist literature. He edited \u003ci\u003eModernism: A Guide to Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and he is an editor of the \u003ci\u003eReview of English Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.    This essential guide to modernist poetry enables readers to make sense of a literary movement  that is considered to be difficult and intimidating. Through close examination of poems by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and others, the book examines the literary forms and structures, and wider cultural context for modernist poetry, as well as the ideological implications of subject matter, and key techniques, such as diction, rhythm, and allusion.  \u003cp\u003eReaders are encouraged to engage with the texts, to form their own interpretations, and to understand that the difficulty of modernist poetry is used to create meaning. \u003ci\u003eReading Modernist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that the ambiguities of the text do not necessarily need to be resolved in favour of one interpretation or another.  Rather, readers are encouraged to move away from the question of what a poem \u003ci\u003esays\u003c\/i\u003e in favour of considering what a poem \u003ci\u003edoes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The impressive achievement of \u003ci\u003eReading Modernist Poetry\u003c\/i\u003eis that it so accessibly explains the poetry (including Yeats, Eliot, Pound and William Carlos Williams) and the very wide range of theories that have been invoked to account for its complexity. Its method is to start from the basics and then proceed in a common-sense manner, and yet it uses that mode to explain why the poetry rejects common sense and insists on the necessity of difficulty. The end result is not only a book that students will be able to use very fruitfully (and its comprehensive section on 'Further Reading' will also help in this respect) but also a genuine contribution to the criticism of modernist literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eIan Gregson\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBangor University\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989917483237,"sku":"NP9781405167314","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405167314.jpg?v=1761785901","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reading-modernist-poetry-isbn-9781405167314","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}