Reading modernist poetry - Whitworth, Michael H. (Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. Malden, MA Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
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.
Charmaine Carreon (Recommending faculty) : Arts and Humanities Cluster
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Reader-response criticism; Poetry -- Explication; Modernism (Literature)