Hart, Matthew, Ph.D.

Nations of nothing but poetry : modernism, transnationalism, and synthetic vernacular writing / Matthew Hart. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. - xiii, 240 p. ; 25 cm. - Modernist literature & culture . - Modernist literature & culture. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-231) and index.

Vernacular discourse from major to minor -- The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism -- A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home -- Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T. S. Eliot versus E. K. Brathwaite -- Transnational anthems and the ship of state: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the politics of afro-modernism -- Epilogue denationalizing Mina Loy.

9780195390339 (alk. paper) 0195390334 (alk. paper)

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English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Poetry, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Modernism (Literature)--English-speaking countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.

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