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News of War - Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 (Hardcover)
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News of War - Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 (Hardcover)
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From the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War until the end of World
War II, many poets around the world felt an obligation to write
about the wars of their time. Famed poets like Wilfred Owen,
Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, and Ivor Gurney had earned
their literary authority because of their experience fighting in
the trenches during World War I, but civilian poets who wished to
write about warfare doubted their own authority to write about the
battles from afar. In News of War, Professor Rachel Galvin argues
that this standard is a strongly gendered norm that is problematic
for women writers, who were much less likely to have firsthand
experience with war. Galvin indicates that the predicament of
writing war without witnessing war is exemplified by six of the
most prominent poets of the time: a Spanish-language poet, Cesar
Vallejo; a French-language poet, Raymond Queneau; and four
English-language poets, W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Marianne
Moore, and Gertrude Stein. Although scholars have previously
observed the anxieties of civilian poets writing about war,
especially in the literature of World War I, Galvin gives the topic
a new emphasis by developing the idea that the poets are in
dialogue with journalism of the time and developing a framework
within which to see their formal patterns for grappling with war at
a distance. Expanding on the work of previous scholars who have
written on poetry's relation to the news, News of War develops the
idea of a strong tendency toward aesthetic self-reflexivity and
ethical self-scrutiny in the poetry of the war.
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