The Great War and the language of modernism

Publisher's description: In The Great War and the Language of Modernism, Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. Sherry recovers the political discourses of the British campaign and estab...

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Auteur principal: Sherry, Vincent B. 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Ebook
Langue:English
Publié: New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
Titres liés à la collection:EBSCOhost eBook Collection
Sujets:World War, 1914-1918 Modernism (Literature) Americans American poetry Electronic books Moderne Sprache Weltkrieg Woolf, Virginia Eliot, T. S. plus... Pound, Ezra Erster Weltkrieg
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xiii, 395 p.)
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Résumé:Publisher's description: In The Great War and the Language of Modernism, Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. Sherry recovers the political discourses of the British campaign and establishes the language to which literary modernism responds with its boldest initiatives. In its wholly new reading of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound, this book restores the historical content and depth of this literature and reveal its most daring import
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Great War and the language of modernism
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xiii, 395 p.) ill
ISBN:9780198026204
019802620X
9780195101768
0195101766
0195178181
9780195178180