Image in Modern(ist) Verse

by Marek Wilczynski (Editor), Janusz Semrau (Editor)

Overview

The book is a collection of essays on the historical development of the poetics of Imagism. It discusses various facets, strands and sub-strands of Imagism, as well as its ongoing legacy. Special attention is paid to the concepts of the image, the objective correlative, texture, and generally structure of modernist poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631656969
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	11/30/2015
Series:	Gdansk Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture , #9
Pages:	170
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janusz Semrau is associate professor at the University of Social Sciences (SAN) in Warsaw. He has authored several books and numerous papers on various aspects of 19^th- and 20^th-century American literature.
Marek Wilczyński is associate professor at the University of Gdańsk. He has authored books and papers on 19^th- and 20^th-century American literature, contemporary Polish literature, and literary theory.

Table of Contents

Contents: Andrzej Kopcewicz: The image and the objective correlative in modernist verse – Paulina Ambroży: Dead end or a change of direction? : One hundred years of imagism – Jørgen Veisland: Imagism as a modernist poetics. Erasing the border between subject and object in 20^th-century poetry, fiction, and drama – Joseph Kuhn: Southern Dinglichkeit: The theory of the image in the work of John Crowe Ransom – Paweł Stachura: Dialectical and dialogical images in the poetry of Vachel Lindsay and T. S. Eliot – Miłosz Wojtyna: The vicinity of things - Ezra Pound’s imagism in the poetry of Basil Bunting and Simon Armitage.