{"product_id":"nations-of-nothing-but-poetry-modernism-transnationalism-and-synthetic-vernacular-writing-9780195390339","title":"Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eModernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNations of Nothing But Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e answers these questions through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s through the 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a combination of fresh insights and attentive close readings, Matthew Hart presents a new theory of synthetic vernacular writing that explores the aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual commitments to the local and the global.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is an invigorating contribution to the field of transnational modernist studies. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical writers, combining new literary histories--such as the story of how Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet Laureate of Liberia--with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore broadly, the book reveals how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as its authority was challenged as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough deft juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist poetry in English that disrupts the critical opposition between nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political history of modernist cosmopolitanism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Hart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/22\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195390339\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Hart \u003c\/strong\u003eis an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39930779992179,"sku":"0195390334","price":93.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fe271241-4d05-40ee-a895-d7613ae39a91.jpg?v=1647699565","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/nations-of-nothing-but-poetry-modernism-transnationalism-and-synthetic-vernacular-writing-9780195390339","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}