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'Poetic Prosthetics' provides an analytical tool for reading war and trauma literature, focusing on contemporary British and American soldier writing, published online in various forums by the soldiers themselves since the onset of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in some cases, recent writings of veterans of the Falkland War.
Psychic trauma in comics. --- War in literature. --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Comic books, strips, etc. --- War poetry, American --- War poetry, English --- War --- Psychic trauma --- History and criticism.
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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.
War poetry, English --- War poetry, American --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- American war poetry --- American poetry --- English war poetry --- English poetry --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war.
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Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, the author maintains, is misleading. This compelling book uncovers what Stevens liked to think of as his ""ordinary"" life, a life in which the demands of politics, economics, poetry, and everyday distractions coexisted, sometimes peacefully and sometimes not. Examining the full scope of Stevens's career (from
Literature and society --- Political poetry, American --- Social problems in literature. --- War poetry, American --- History --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- Stevens, Wallace --- -Social problems in literature --- -Literature and society --- -Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- American war poetry --- American poetry --- American political poetry --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- -Stevens, Wallace --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Political and social views --- Criticism and interpretation --- Political poetry [American ] --- War poetry [American ] --- Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) --- Critique et interprétation --- Critique et interprétation
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Poetry --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- anno 1910-1919 --- AMERICAN POETRY --- FIRST WORLD WAR --- LITERATURE AND THE WAR --- POLITICS AND LITERATURE --- WAR POETRY, AMERICAN --- CHAPLIN (RALPH) --- HILL (JOE) --- MORGAN (ANGELA) --- SANDBURG (CARL) --- THOMPSON (JAMES) --- WATKINS (LUCIAN B.) --- 20th CENTURY --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- U.S. --- HISTORY
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