Nations of Nothing but Poetry : Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing (Modernist Literature and Culture)

Hart, Matthew

Oxford University Press Inc（2010/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195390339
• DDC分類 809.104

基本説明

Examines the relationship between modernism and vernacular poetry in Scotland, the Carribean, England, and the US.

Full Description

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.

Contents

INTRODUCTION 1; HUGH MACDIARMID'S NATIONALIST INTERNATIONALISM 94; BASIL BUNTING GOES HOME 146; T. S. ELIOT VERSUS E. K. BRATHWAITE 198; HARRYETTE MULLEN, MELVIN B. TOLSON AND THE; POLITICS OF AFRO-MODERNISM 263; EPILOGUE DENATIONALIZING MINA LOY 328