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Religious Culture in Modernist Verse : Form, Belief, and Twentieth-Century Poetics.

Bloomsbury Collections: Literary Studies 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Steinke, Annarose F., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry.
English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
English poetry.
Modernism (Literature)--England.
Modernism (Literature).
Modernism (Literature)--United States.
Religion in literature.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (187 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2026.
System Details:
text file rdaft
Summary:
An exploration of how modernist poets engaged with religious belief and practice in developing the techniques and theories that would shape twentieth-century and contemporary poetry.
Contents:
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Religious Culture in Modernist Poetry and Poetics
1 Mina Loy's Words for Christian Things
2 Sainthood and Gertrude Stein's Invocatory Poetics
3 Distraction in T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday
4 Basil Bunting's "Delight in Transience"
5 Thom Gunn's Christian Icons and the Paradox of Memorial
Conclusion: : New Directions for Religion in Modern(ist) Verse
Notes
Conclusion: New Directions for Religion in Modern(ist) Verse
Bibliography
Index.
ISBN:
979-88-8189-712-3
1-9787-7136-3
979-82-16-25513-0
OCLC:
1573146477

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