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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,265
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Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Paperback): Matthew Hart

Nations of Nothing But Poetry - Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Paperback)

Matthew Hart

Series: Modernist Literature and Culture

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Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s. With a combination of fresh insights and attentive close readings, Matthew Hart presents a new theory of a "synthetic vernacular"-writing that explores the aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual commitments to the local and the global. The result is an invigorating contribution to the field of transnational modernist studies. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical writers, combining new literary histories-such as the story of how Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet Laureate of Liberia-with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot. More broadly, the book reveals how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as its authority was challenged as never before. Through deft juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist poetry in English-one that disrupts the critical opposition between nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political history of modernist cosmopolitanism.

General

Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Series: Modernist Literature and Culture
Release date: August 2013
First published: September 2013
Authors: Matthew Hart (Assistant Professor)
Dimensions: 235 x 160 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-932471-2
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN: 0-19-932471-9
Barcode: 9780199324712

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