Reading Modernist Poetry
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Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements.

1 Introduction.

Part I Subject Matter.

2 Reflexivity.

3 Landscapes, Locations, and Texts.

4 Explorations of Consciousness.

Part II Techniques.

5 Interpreting Obscurities, Negotiating Negatives.

6 The Sound of the Poem.

7 Allusion and Quotation.

8 The Language of Modernist Poetry: Diction and Dialogue.

9 Literal and Metaphorical Language.

10 Mythology, Mythography, and Mythopoesis.

11 Who is Speaking?

Part III Form, Structure, and Evaluation.

12 Form.

13 Subjects and Objects in Modernist Lyric.

14 Temporality and Modernist Lyric.

15 The Dramatic Monologue.

16 Modernism, Epic, and the Long Poem.

17 Modernist Endings.

18 Value and Evaluation.

Glossary.

Further Reading.

Index.

About the Author

Michael H. Whitworth is University Lecturer inTwentieth-Century Literature, and a Tutorial Fellow of MertonCollege, Oxford. He is the author of Einstein?s Wake:Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001) and Virginia Woolf (2005), and of other articles and chapters onmodernist literature. He edited Modernism: A Guide toCriticism (2007), and he is an editor of the Review ofEnglish Studies.

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"It is well structured, well researched, clearly written, and fullof innovative insights." ( M/C Reviews, September2010)

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