The Great War and the Language of Modernism
- ISBN-10
- 0195178181
- ISBN-13
- 9780195178180
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 410
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Authors
- Vincent B. Sherry, Vincent Sherry
Description
Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. He recovers the political discourses of the British campaign, offering new readings of Woolf, Eliot and Pound.
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