Nations of nothing but poetry: modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing

What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? Nations ofNothing 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 asT.S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, with chapters on key but lesser known poets notedfor 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. INDICE: Introduction 1; 1.: Vernacular Discourse from Major to Minor 47; 2.: The Impossibility of Synthetic Scots; or,; Hugh MacDiarmid's NationalistInternationalism 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

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539033-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 254
• Fecha Publicación: 20/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés