Author: Sherry, Vincent B.
Title: The Great War and the Language of Modernism
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, (2004). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xiii,395 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ In The Great War and the Language of Modernism, Vincent Sherry reopens long unanswered questions regarding the influence of the 1914 war on the verbal experiments of modernist poetry and fiction. Sherry recovers the political discourses of the British campaign and establishes the language to which literary modernism responds with its boldest initiatives. In its wholly new reading of Woolf, Eliot, and Pound, this book restores the historical content and depth of this literature and reveals its most daring import" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Modernism, Modernist, World War One, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot,