Modernism in poetry Book

	Foreword
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Problems of the Sign: Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-89)	10
1	The changing concepts of the sign	10
2	A poetry of struggle	12
3	Signification as appropriation: 'inscape'	13
4	Signification as distancing	21
5	The empty sign: signification and 'selving'	27
6	Modernist Hopkins	33
2	The Symbolic Approach and its Limits: W.B. Yeats (1865-1939)	37
1	The functions of the symbol	37
2	Symbols and symbolism in Yeats's early poems	39
3	Objective symbolism	44
4	Subjective symbolism	46
5	Symbols and history	50
6	The limit of the symbol: imagination	55
3	From Metaphor to Metonymy: T.S. Eliot (1888-1965)	61
1	The birth of modernism	61
2	The structure of the metaphor	63
3	Metaphors in Eliot's early poetry	65
4	The structure and effects of the metonymy	69
5	Absence as structure: The Waste Land	73
6	From network to pattern: Four Quartets	80
4	Modernism and Myth: Ezra Pound (1885-1972)	88
1	Myth as frame and supplement	88
2	Personae and myth in Pound's early poems	93
3	Fragments of culture	99
4	Imagism as anti-mythical myth-making	106
5	The trap of tradition: Hugh Selwyn Mauberley	110
6	The materiality of The Cantos	113
7	The order of The Cantos: archive and periplous	115
8	Self-inflicted blindness and the power of modernism	118
5	Modernist Poetry as a Universal Compensation Strategy	123
1	Internal problems and lost outsides	123
2	Strategies of stabilisation	124
3	Approaching the limits of modernism	129
6	Modernist Poetry and Psychoanalysis	133
1	Poetry and psychoanalysis: intersections of the modernist project	133
2	Poetry's synthetic consciousness and psychoanalytic concepts of the self	136
3	The writer and his doubles	141
4	Metaphor, metonymy, symbol and their psychoanalytic counterparts	148
5	Signs of desire / the desire of signs	167
7	Towards an Economy of the Modernist Poem	172
1	The text as an economy of meaning	172
2	The stability of the mirror	173
3	Artificial creation: symbolic values	179
4	Stable investments: reification	185
5	Conspicuous waste: loss and dissolution as limits of modernism	191
8	Modernist Poetry and Language Philosophy	207
1	Cognition and language	207
2	Nietzsche's radical redefinition of truth	209
3	Wittgenstein's distrust of language	216
4	Heidegger: language as the house of Being	222
	Defying Conclusions: Opening up Modernism	237
	Bibliography	247
	Index	264