| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 America Enters the War; The Hegemonic Project; American Ideology and First World War Poetry; Left Neo-pragmatism; Historical Materialism; Chapter 2 American Intervention in the First World War: Poetry as an Ideological Form; Neutrality and Its Discontents; Pervasive Anachronism; Poetry and Interpellation; Conclusion; Chapter 3 ''Devotions Loyal Even to Death'': Alan Seeger, Asceticism, Medievalism, and the Martial Ideal; Seeger Before the War |
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The Coming StormThe Storm Breaks; Love and Arms and Song; ''All Are Made One''; ''There Was Only an Industrial World''; ''I Have a Rendezvous with Death''; ''The Emotion That Was Mine''; Seeger as Public Poet; After the Rendezvous; Chapter 4 ''Dulce et Decorum'': Edith Wharton's Great War; Journalism: Fighting France and French Ways and Their Meanings; A Son at the Front; Chapter 5 Some Versions of the Epic: The First World War and the Modern American Long Poem; Epic as Genre: Carter, The Gates of Janus; Hulley, St. Michael and the Dragon; and Lewys, Epic of Verdun |
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Heroic Epics: Abe Craddock Edmunds, Five Men at the Battle of Rheims and Leighton Brewer, Riders of the SkyModern Epic: Lincoln Colcord, Vision of War; An Encyclopedia: Lindley Grant Long, Farmer Hiram on the World's War; Conclusion; Chapter 6 ''Wristers Etcetera'': Cummings, the Great War, and Discursive Struggle; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
Connects American poetry to the emergence of the United States as the leading global economic and political power |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF file page (EBSCO, viewed June 29, 2018) |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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War and literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781108314312 |
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1108314317 |
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9781108291446 |
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1108291449 |
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1108407897 |
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9781108407892 |
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