Title: The poet as ‘comprehensive’, ‘allusive’ and ‘indirect’: the dislocation of language in modernist texts
Abstract:This paper examines the changing nature of representation in Modernism in the early 20th Century in the light of Eliot’s description of the poet as one who must change as ‘reality alters’. This paper ...This paper examines the changing nature of representation in Modernism in the early 20th Century in the light of Eliot’s description of the poet as one who must change as ‘reality alters’. This paper selects three case studies: Ezra Pound’s imagist poetry, T.S.Eliot’s ‘Prufrock’ and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It compares, explores and accounts for the ways in which these three writers’ works can be viewed as ‘allusive’, ‘comprehensive’ and ‘indirect’: three terms borrowed from Eliot’s claim that the poet must become more comprehensive, more allusive and more indirect ‘in order to force … language into his meaning.’Read More
Publication Year: 2012
Publication Date: 2012-12-14
Language: en
Type: article
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