English poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc
Reader-response criticism
Poetry--Explication
Modernism )Literature(
PR
605
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M63W47
2010
Whitworth, Michael H
Includes bibliographical references and index
Part one. Subject matter: reflexivity; landscapes, locations, and texts; explorations of consciousness -- Part two. Techniques: interpreting obscurities, negotiating negatives; the sound of the poem; allusion and quotation; the language of modernist poetry: diction and dialogue; literal and metaphorical language; mythology, mythography, and mythopoesis; who is speaking? -- Part three. Form, structure, and evaluation: form; subjects and objects in modernist lyric; temporality and modernist lyric; the dramatic monologue; modernism, epic, and the long poem; modernist endings; value and evaluation.