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Dismantling glory : twentieth-century soldier poetry / Lorrie Goldensohn.
LIBRA PR120.S64 G65 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldensohn, Lorrie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soldiers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Soldiers' writings, English.
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Literature and the war.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- Soldiers' writings, American--History and criticism.
- Soldiers' writings, American.
- World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1939-1945--Literature and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- War poetry, American--History and criticism.
- War poetry, American.
- War poetry, English--History and criticism.
- War poetry, English.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Twentieth-century soldier poetry
- 20th century soldier poetry
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- "Dismantling Glory" deals with the poetry written about the honors and horrors of battle by the very soldiers who put their lives on the line. Focusing on American and English poetry from World Wars I and II and the Vietnam War, Lorrie Goldensohn presents the move from a poetry largely bound to trench warfare to a global war poetry dominated by air power, invasion, and occupation. Civilians, prisoners, and children enter this poetry in new and compelling ways, as do issues of race and gender, changing and complicating the representation of war, and expanding the scope of antiwar thinking.
- Contents:
- 1. The Dignities of Danger 1
- Dismantling Glory 5
- Far with the Brave We Have Ridden 8
- The Burdens of Heroic Masculinity 18
- The Boundaries of War 25
- "Half in love with the horrors which we cried out against" 31
- The Troubled Stream 36
- 2. Wilfred Owen's "Long-famous glories, immemorial shames" 42
- Introduction: The Fellowship of Death 42
- "One must see and feel" 50
- "The pity of War" 64
- 3. W. H. Auden: "The great struggle of our time" 83
- England's Auden 85
- Where the War Poets Were 101
- 4. Keith Douglas: Inside the Whale 118
- "Simplify me when I'm dead" 119
- "The glorious bran tub" 144
- "Bete Noire" 159
- 5. Randall Jarrell's War 174
- The Particulars of the Poem 181
- "He learns to fight for freedom and the State" 199
- A Poetic and Semifeminine Mind 212
- "Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can" 222
- "A fresh visionary tension" 232
- 6. American Poets of the Vietnam War 235
- "Cry for us all, for learning our lessons well" 235
- Winning Hearts and Minds 236
- Carrying the Darkness 260
- Beautiful Wreckage 270
- "Brothers in the Nam" 289
- Men and Women and Women 297
- Raids on Homer 329.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-354) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0231119380
- OCLC:
- 52152874
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