Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American PoetryViorica Pâtea, Paul Scott Derrick Rodopi, 2007 - 243 pages Offering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a rich and varied reconsideration of Modernist American poetry. Its contributions fall into two general categories: new and original discussions of many of the principal figures of the movement (Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Cummings and Stevens) and reflections on the phenomenon of Modernism within a broader cultural context (the influence of Haiku, parallels and connections with Surrealism, responses to the Modernist accomplishment by later American poets). Because of its mixture of European and American perspectives, Modernism Revisited will be of vital interest to students and scholars of American literature and Modernism in general and of twentieth-century comparative literature and art. |
Contents
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FROSTS SONNETS IN AND OUT OF BOUNDS | 35 |
LETTERS AS MODERNIST MANIFESTO | 53 |
PAOHSIEN FANG AND THE NAXI RITES IN EZRA POUNDS CANTOS | 73 |
T S ELIOTS THE WASTE LAND AND THE POETICS OF THE MYTHICAL METHOD | 91 |
POETRY AS UNGRAMMAR IN E E CUMMINGS POEMS | 111 |
WALLACE STEVENS POETRY OF RESISTANCE | 121 |
THE JAPANESE HAIKU AND THE SKEPTICISM TOWARDS LANGUAGE IN MODERNIST AMERICAN POETRY | 135 |
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS VERSUS SURREALIST POETICS | 161 |
INSTANCES OF THE JOURNEY MOTIF THROUGH LANGUAGE AND SELFHOOD IN SOME MODERNIST AMERICAN POETS | 175 |
THE POETRY OF ROBERT CREELEY | 189 |
MODERNIST REALISM AND LOWELLS CONFESSIONAL STYLE | 207 |
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS | 225 |
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