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Modernist War Poetry - Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914 19 (Hardcover, 113,917 ed.)
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Modernist War Poetry - Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914 19 (Hardcover, 113,917 ed.)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture
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This study examines the work of the principle architects of
Anglo-American modernist poetics - T.S. Eliot, H.D., Ezra Pound,
Gertrude Stein, Edward Thomas and Wallace Stevens - and their
response to the challenge of combatant war poetries. It argues that
these civilian poets sought to negotiate directly with the
combatant's gnosticism, specifically with the combatant's assertion
that only those present at a catastrophe could properly represent
its horrors. The modernists rightly identified that gnosticism was
a threat to their own representational claims on an increasingly
traumatic modernity. How was the imagination to be salvaged in
order that it could still feel into the wounded experience of
others? In response to this challenge, the modernists drafted their
own imagined war poems, developing in the process several different
and contradictory poetic systems. Whereas scholarship ordinarily
tells the story of intra-war modern poetry as a series of different
schools - the trench lyric, the home front elegy and the modernist
long poem - each moving in a different direction, this study brings
those traditions back together into one history by treating them as
idiosyncratic responses to the same aesthetic problem.
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