Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)

Debo, Annette

ISBN 10: 1603291032 / ISBN 13: 9781603291033

Editore: Modern Language Association of America, an Imprint of Modern Language Association of America, 2011

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• Titolo: Approaches to Teaching H.D.'s Poetry and Prose (Approaches to Teaching World Literature)
• Editore: Modern Language Association of America, an Imprint of Modern Language Association of America
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1603291032
• ISBN 13: 9781603291033
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: new

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The poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) came on the literary scene in the 1910s as a young American expatriate living in England. Her early lyric poems, in Sea Garden, helped launch the free verse movement known as imagism. Her work as a whole, spanning five decades, includes long narrative poems, novels, memoirs, and translations. Her experience of the two world wars in Europe is felt throughout her oeuvre, much of which focuses on the power and destructiveness of war. Other recurring topics are ancient models of civilization, comparative mythology, and female deities suppressed in the modern era.

Since the 1970s, H.D.'s poetry and prose have appeared regularly on undergraduate and graduate syllabi, in courses ranging from American or British modernism and gender and sexuality studies to literature of war and classical literature and mythology. Yet her work—complex and densely allusive—can be difficult for students to comprehend and for instructors to teach. This volume aims to assist instructors in helping their students navigate the intricacies of H.D.'s work and overcome some of the frustration of deciphering modern poetry. The first part, "Materials," presents resources useful to instructors of H.D.'s work, and the second part, "Approaches," offers specific ways to teach her wide-ranging corpus. Contributors describe courses that teach H.D. in the context of modernism, alongside such writers as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. Others follow the themes of myth and religion in her long epic poems Helen in Egypt and Trilogy and her autobiographical work The Gift. H.D.'s analysis with Freud and her subsequent memoir of the experience find their place in a course on critical theory. Many instructors teach H.D. through the lens of sexuality, feminism, or race; others use interdisciplinary approaches that focus on H.D.'s engagement with film.

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Annette Debo is associate professor of English at Western Carolina University and cochair of the H.D. International Society. Her monograph The American H.D.: Nation and Modernist Identity, and her essays have appeared in African American Review, Callaloo, Paideuma, South Atlantic Review, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, CLA Journal, and College Literature. She is at work on a study of women's poetry, violence, and the civil rights era. Lara Vetter is assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and cochair of the H.D. International Society. She is the author of Modernist Writings and Religio-specific Discourse: H.D., Loy, and Toomer, and she has published articles in Genre and the Journal of Modern Literature. She is coeditor of Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital, Textual Inquiry. She is at work on a book on H.D. and late modernism.