The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry
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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry by Alex Davis
This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. 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.
'As an introductory text to modernist poetry this companion would be a welcome addition to any university library serving English or American literature departments' Reference Reviews
Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork. Lee M. Jenkins is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521618151 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521618150 |
| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry |
| Author | Alex Davis |
| Series | Cambridge Companions To Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2007-07-19 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
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