Nations of nothing but poetry
Subtitle: modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing
By: Matthew Hart
Series: Modernist literature & culture; Modernist literature & culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780195390339
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vernacular discourse from major to minor; title: The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism; title: A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home; title: Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite; title: Transnational anthems and the ship of state: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the politics of afro-modernism; title: Epilogue denationalizing Mina Loy.