Annarose F Steinke

Religious Culture in Modernist Verse

Form, Belief, and Twentieth-Century Poetics

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Produktbeschreibung

Annarose F. Steinke offers a look into the nuanced treatments of religion in modernism, and modernist poetry in particular, by pairing Eliot with Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Basil Bunting, and Thom Gunn. Steinke explores how these five poets, subscribing to a range of personal beliefs from atheism to orthodox Christianity, display a fascination with religious iconography, ritual, and liturgy while placing religious and poetic forms into dialogue as each tests the limits of the other. Some of the poems analyzed afford a space to think through the problems and failings inherent to religious belief and practice in modern life. Yet in other instances, these poets engage religious language, ritual, and iconography to expose, negotiate, and parse out the terms under which poetic language can make some kind of spiritual life possible and sustainable in modernity. In all of these cases, the poetry focuses intensely on the texts, cultures, and objects of religious practice, ultimately, I argue, to question what makes poetic form itself believable.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781666961904
• ISBN-10: 1666961906
• Artikelnr.: 74319208

Autorenporträt

Annarose F. Steinke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Religious Culture in Modernist Poetry and Poetics
1. Mina Loy's Words for Christian Things
2. Sainthood and Gertrude Stein's Invocatory Poetics
3. Distraction in T. S. Eliot's Ash-Wednesday
4. Basil Bunting's "Delight in Transience"
5. Thom Gunn's Christian Icons and the Paradox of Memorial
Conclusion: New Directions for Religion in Modern(ist) Verse
Notes
Bibliography