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1 online resource (xiii, 395 pages) : illustrations |
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Online-Ressource |
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ILLUSTRATIONS -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Liberal Measures: Prolegomenon to a Poetics of English Modernism -- I: Harmonic Politics -- II: The Journalistic Turn -- III: The Literary State -- IV: Critical Poetics -- INTERCHAPTER 1: Lessons for the Relative Alien -- 2 Pound's Savage Ratios -- I: Mimicry, with Differences -- II: The Student of Contemporary Mentality -- III: The Arranger of Inanities -- IV: Homage to Sextus Propertius -- V: Propoundius: His Aftermath -- VI: The Decay of This Generation -- INTERCHAPTER 2: Stein -- 3 Mr. Eliot's Wartime Services |
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I: Oppositions, Repossessions, Performances -- II: English, in French -- III: Powers of Four -- IV: Sunday Morning Decadence -- V: Poetic Modernism -- VI: Pound, Eliot, and the Making of The Waste Land: Policing the Voices -- INTERCHAPTER 3: Ford -- 4 Woolf, Among the Modernists -- I: Voyaging Out -- II: Shorts -- III: Jacob's Room -- IV: Mrs. Dalloway's Insubordinate Clause -- V: Unbracketed -- EPILOGUE: A Memory for Modernism, the New Critical Constructions, and This Awful Truth of Pseudotruth -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q |
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| Summary |
Publisher's description: In The Great War and the Language of Modernism, Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. Sherry recovers the political discourses of the British campaign and establishes the language to which literary modernism responds with its boldest initiatives. In its wholly new reading of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound, this book restores the historical content and depth of this literature and reveal its most daring import |
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Electronic books |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Views on war
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Views on war
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Views on war
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 fast |
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 fast |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Literature and the war
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Modernism (Literature) -- Great Britain
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Americans -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Americans
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Modernism (Literature)
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War
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War and literature
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Great Britain
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United States
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780198026204 |
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019802620X |
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9780195101768 |
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0195101766 |
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0195178181 |
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9780195178180 |
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1280452293 |
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9781280452291 |
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0195180550 |
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9780195180558 |
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6610452296 |
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9786610452293 |
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9780199788002 |
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0199788006 |
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