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Whitworth, Michael H.

Reading modernist poetry / Michael H. Whitworth. - Malden ; Oxford ; Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xi, 237 p. ; 24 cm. - Reading poetry. .

Index : p. [234]-237.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN: 9781405167314 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1405167319 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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)

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Dewey Class. No.: 821.9109112 / WHI