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Nations of Nothing But Poetry
Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
Matthew Hart
254 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-539033-9
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Hardback
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20 May 2010
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- Presents a new theory of <"synthetic vernacular>" writing that accounts for modernist experiments with ethno-national language.
- Expands the discussion of modernist poetics to include the works of Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, E. K. Brathwaite, Mina Loy, and Melvin B. Tolson.
- Examines the relationship between modernism and vernacular poetry in Scotland, the Carribean, England, and the US.
What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and "Black Atlantic" poetries from the landmark modernist year of 1922 through the mid 1970s. Hart combines discussions of canonical poets, such as T.S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, with chapters on key but lesser known poets noted for their unique and creative introduction of their native vernaculars, like Hugh MacDiarmid, Basil Bunting, and Melvin B. Tolson.
Throughout, Hart puts forward a new interpretation of Anglophone modernist verse that disrupts the literary-critical conflict between "national" and "transnational" poetries. Describing how these poets make "synthetic vernacular" poems out of a disordered medley of formal and linguistic parts, this study explains how poetic modernism is shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of twentieth-century history.Readership: Readers of Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, MELUS, Literary Imagination, Contemporary Literature; scholars of modernism and postcolonial studies.
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Matthew Hart, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Matthew Hart is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and he is the Associate Editor of the journal Contemporary Literature.
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"As in the best of the revisionist strain of new modernist studies, Harts book elegantly reframes much that has been long known about big M modernism using a lot of little m judo." - Aaron Jaffe, Years Work in English Studies
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Introduction 1
1.: Vernacular Discourse from Major to Minor 47
2.: The Impossibility of Synthetic Scots; or,
Hugh MacDiarmid's Nationalist Internationalism 94
3.: A Dialect Written in the Spelling of the Capital:
Basil Bunting Goes Home 146
4.: Tradition and the Postcolonial Talent:
T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite 198
5.: Transnational Anthems and the Ship of State:
Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the
Politics of Afro-Modernism 263
Epilogue Denationalizing Mina Loy 328
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