I think it better that in times like these
A poet keep his mouth shut, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter’s night.
—William Butler Yeats, "On Being Asked for a War Poem," The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
In literary studies, World War I has become a way of marking the time, geography, economics, and technology of modernity. Therefore, one hundred years later, we ask: how has this paradigm shaped contemporary concepts of modernism, periodization, imperialism, and globalization? And how might the legacy of the Great War influence the literature and criticism of the future?
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A poet keep his mouth shut, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He has had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth,
Or an old man upon a winter’s night.
—William Butler Yeats, "On Being Asked for a War Poem," The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
In literary studies, World War I has become a way of marking the time, geography, economics, and technology of modernity. Therefore, one hundred years later, we ask: how has this paradigm shaped contemporary concepts of modernism, periodization, imperialism, and globalization? And how might the legacy of the Great War influence the literature and criticism of the future?
Click below to download a high resolution version of the symposium's poster.
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