News of War
Civilian Poetry 1936-1945
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 March 2020
- ISBN 9780190087630
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 155x251x22 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
A new work of scholarship that considers several of the most prominent poets writing from the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War II.
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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.
News of War is the first book to address the complex relationship between poetry and journalism. In two chapters on civilian literatures of the Spanish Civil War, five chapters on World War II, and an epilogue on contemporary poetry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Galvin combines analysis of poetic form with attention to socio-historical context, drawing on rare archival sources and furnishing new translations. In comparing how poets wrestled with the limits of bodily experience, and with the ethical, political, and aesthetic problems they faced, Galvin theorizes the concept of meta-rhetoric, a type of ethical self-interference. She argues that civilian writers employed strategies drawn from journalism precisely to question the objectivity and facticity of war reporting. Civilian poetics of the 1930s and 1940s was born from writers' desire to acknowledge their own socio-historical position and to write poems that responded ethically to the gravest events of their day.
News of War contributes to a growing body of scholarship that seeks to include civilian writing in the canon of twentieth-century war literature...The persuasiveness of Galvin's book, however, is no mere rhetorical trick: it rests on impressive archival work and thorough knowledge of the critical landscape. Her experience as a poet and linguist informs an impressive ability to crack open familiar poems, reading them afresh with compellingly revisionist results.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Flesh Made Word: César Vallejo and the Spanish Civil War
Chapter Two: W.H. Auden: Rushing to the Pumps, or Not, in Spain and China
Chapter Three: W.H. Auden during World War II
Chapter Four: Wallace Stevens in a “Sudden Time”
Chapter Five: Raymond Queneau, Reading the Poor Paper
Chapter Six: Marianne Moore and the Eyewitness Bind
Chapter Seven: Gertrude Stein and the War She Saw
Epilogue
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