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Perspectives on World War I Poetry
Contributor(s): Evans, Robert C. (Author)
ISBN: 147251310X     ISBN-13: 9781472513106
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $36.70  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2014
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
- History | Military - World War I
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.912
LCCN: 2013048615
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 1900-1919
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

Introducing students to the full range of critical approaches to the poetry of the period, Perspectives on World War I Poetry is an authoritative and accessible guide to the extraordinary variety of international poetic responses to the Great War of 1914-18. Each chapter covers one or more major poets, and guides the reader through close readings of poems from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including:
- Classical
- Formalist
- Psychoanalytic
- Marxist
- Structuralist
- Reader-response
- New Historicist
- Feminist

Including the full text of each poem discussed and poetry from British, North American and Commonwealth writers, the book explores the work of such poets as: Thomas Hardy, A.E. Housman, Alys Fane Trotter, Eva Dobell, Charlotte Mew, John McCrae, Edward Thomas, Eleanor Farjeon, Margaret Sackville, Sara Teasdale, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, Teresa Hooley, Isaac Rosenberg, Leon Gellert, Marian Allen, Vera Brittain, Margaret Postgate Cole, Wilfred Owen, E.E. Cummings and David Jones.

Contributor Bio(s): Evans, Robert C.: - Robert C. Evans is Professor of English and Philosophy at Auburn University at Montgomery, USA.