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.
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.