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First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This new book delivers a fascinating insight into China's strategic
abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for
the twenty first century. world's largest operator of tactical
submarines? Why is Beijing so intent on upgrading this fleet? Is
the stage being set in East Asia for a contest for maritime
supremacy pitting Chinese submarines against American aircraft
carriers? Why does the U.S. Navy regard China's submarines as one
of its most formidable weapons? China's strategic outlook today and
that of earlier continental powers whose submarine fleets
challenged dominant maritime powers for regional hegemony: Germany
in two world wars and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Using
insights from classical naval strategic theory it examines
Beijing's strategic logic in making tactical submarines the
keystone of China's naval force structure. It investigates the
influence of Soviet naval strategy and ancient Chinese military
thought on the PLA Navy's strategic culture. It contends that
China's increasingly capable submarine fleet could play a key role
in Beijing's use of force to resolve the Taiwan issue. With
attention focused on China's missile build-up opposite Taiwan, it
also warns that there is a danger of underestimating the potential
of the PLA Navy's submarines to destabilise any future Taiwan
Strait crisis. and strategic studies, Asian Politics, Geopolitics
and Military (Naval) Strategy.
If Modernist poetry dominated the early twentieth century, what did
it mean for British poets like Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and
Wilfred Owen not to be Modernist? This is the first critical
account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist
revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over
poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early
twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary
social and political developments and the trauma of the First World
War. Howarth argues that at the heart of the division between
modern and traditional poetic form are different ideas of freedom,
power and individuality. Scholars and students of twentieth-century
poetry will find this an informative and inspiring account of the
themes and debates that have shaped British poetry of the last
hundred years.
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural
achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This
wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most
famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why
modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for
poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot,
Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments
take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and
changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later
modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the
community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way
how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of
modernist poetry in English.
Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural
achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This
wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most
famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why
modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for
poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot,
Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments
take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and
changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later
modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the
community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way
how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of
modernist poetry in English.
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and
Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet
across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it
considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare,
William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters
explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is
involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a
lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets -
Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of
writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion
across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and
authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion
expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and
development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
If Modernist poetry dominated the early twentieth century, what did
it mean for British poets like Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and
Wilfred Owen not to be Modernist? This is the first critical
account of how non-Modernist poetry responded to the Modernist
revolution. Peter Howarth uncovers the origins of the battles over
poetic style still being fought today, and connects the early
twentieth-century controversy about poetic form with contemporary
social and political developments and the trauma of the First World
War. Howarth argues that at the heart of the division between
modern and traditional poetic form are different ideas of freedom,
power and individuality. Scholars and students of twentieth-century
poetry will find this an informative and inspiring account of the
themes and debates that have shaped British poetry of the last
hundred years.
Beginning with the early masters of the sonnet form, Dante and
Petrarch, the Companion examines the reinvention of the sonnet
across times and cultures, from Europe to America. In doing so, it
considers sonnets as diverse as those by William Shakespeare,
William Wordsworth, George Herbert and e. e. cummings. The chapters
explore how we think of the sonnet as a 'lyric' and what is
involved in actually trying to write one. The book includes a
lively discussion between three distinguished contemporary poets -
Paul Muldoon, Jeff Hilson and Meg Tyler - on the experience of
writing a sonnet, and a chapter which traces the sonnet's diffusion
across manuscript, print, screen and the internet. A fresh and
authoritative overview of this major poetic form, the Companion
expertly guides the reader through the sonnet's history and
development into the global multimedia phenomenon it is today.
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