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News of War Civilian Poetry 1936-1945


Free Download Rachel Galvin, "News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945"
English | ISBN: 0190623926 | 2017 | 384 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 15 MB
News of War: Civilian Poetry 1936-1945 is a powerful account of how civilian poets confront the urgent problem of writing about war. The six poets Rachel Galvin discusses-W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Raymond Queneau, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and César Vallejo-all wrote memorably about war, but still they felt they did not have authority to write about what they had not experienced firsthand. Consequently, these writers developed a wartime poetics engaging with both classical rhetoric and the daily news in texts that encourage readers to take critical distance from war culture.

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