Modernism Revisited Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry

• Main Authors: Patea, Viorica, Derrick, Paul Scott
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2007
• Edition: 1
• Series: DQR Studies in Literature
• Subjects: American poetry-20th century-History and criticism; Modernism (Literature)-History and criticism

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...

Table of Contents:

• Intro -- Modernism Revisited: Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- I. Reflections on Modernity: The Aura of Modernism -- The Aura of Modernism -- II. Transgressing Boundaries: Some Modernists Revisited -- Frost's Sonnets, In and Out of Bounds -- Pound and Williams: The Letters as Modernist Manifesto -- Pao-hsien Fang and the Naxi Rites in Ezra Pound's Cantos -- T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the Poetics of the Mythical Method -- Poetry as Ungrammar in E. E. Cummings' Poems -- Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Resistance -- III. Strategies of Renewal: Modernism in a Broader Context -- In Search of Words for "Moon-Viewing": The Japanese Haiku and the Skepticism towards Language in Modernist American Poetry -- Spontaneous, not Automatic: William Carlos Williams versus Surrealist Poetics -- Instances of the Journey Motif through Language and Selfhood in some Modernist American Poets -- For Love and Language: The Poetry of Robert Creeley -- Modernist Realism and Lowell's Confessional Style -- Notes on Contributors -- Index