Modernist War Poetry : : Combat Gnosticism and the Sympathetic Imagination, 1914–19 / / Jamie Wood.

Re-reading intra-war modernist poetics through war poetryUniquely foregrounds the concept of ‘combat gnosticism’ bringing this influential thesis in war writing to bear on modernist studiesBrings together combatant war poetry and the ignored war poems of ‘home front’ poets into a single genealogical...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2023
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture : ECCSMC
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations 8 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Timelines
  • Acknowledgements
  • Series Editors’ Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Early Modernist Responses to Combatant Poetry: 1914–Spring 1915
  • 2 Reassessing Disaster: 1915
  • 3 The Three Lives of Gnosticism: 1916–Summer 1917
  • 4 An Emergent Critique of War Experience: Autumn 1917–Spring 1919
  • 5 The Form and Practice of Modernist Distaste: Summer–Autumn 1919
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • INDEX