Nations of nothing but poetry
Subtitle: modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing
By: Matthew Hart.
Series: Modernist literature & culture
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195390339
Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) -- English-speaking countries; Postcolonialism in literature; Transnationalism in literature
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.