The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India.
While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal.
This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. The essays place the various literary traditions within a social and historical context and set out recent critical debates. A broad, accessible account of European modernism, this Companion explores what this cosmopolitan movement can teach us about life as a citizen of Europe and of the world.
This volume provides a thorough overview of the main genres, the important issues, and the key figures in women's writing during the years — The essays treat the work of Woolf, Stein, Cather, H. Barnes, Hurston, and many others in detail; they also explore women's salons, little magazines, activism, photography, film criticism, and dance. Written especially for this Companion, these lively essays introduce students and scholars to the vibrant field of women's modernism.
Score: 3. Recent writing on U. Written by a host of leading scholars, this Companion provides unique approaches to modernist texts. Score: 5. Through essays written on a range of cultural contexts, this collection helps readers understand the significant changes in belief systems, visual culture, and pastimes that influenced, and were influenced by, the experimental literature published around Anne Dewey.
Alan Golding. A short summary of this paper. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods.
Walter Kalaidjian is professor and chair of the department of English at Emory University. A complete list of books in the series is at the back of this book. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library.
American poetry — 20th century — History and criticism. Literature and society — United States — History — 20th century. Modernism Literature — United States. Kalaidjian, Walter B. Millay Papers Box 14, Library of Congress. He is currently completing a book project on poetic modernism in the culture of mass print and coedits with Cary Nelson the Modern American Poetry Site. His most recent study is Cold War Poetry He teaches courses in modern poetry, popular culture, and graphic novels.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is the author of the long poem Drafts, spanning to She has written six critical books from Cambridge, Iowa, and Alabama University Presses , coedited several anthologies, and published numer- ous articles on gender and poetics. She is Professor Emerita at Temple University.
Alan Golding teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Louisville. He is the author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry and of numerous essays on modernist and contemporary poetry.
Bonaventure University. His recent work can be found in American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Paideuma, Postmodern Culture, Sagetrieb, and Poetry magazine, and he is finish- ing a book on poetry and activism in the wake of the New Left. He is the author of Transpacific Displacement , Transpacific Imaginations , and others. He is currently at work on a book manuscript entitled Critics and Connoisseurs: Poet- Critics and the Administration of Modernism and a critical biography of Hugh Kenner.
She is the author of a second collection, Feral , and a novel, Red Weather
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