Locations of Literary Modernism: Region and Nation in British and American Modernist Poetry

by Edited by Alex Davis , Lee M. Jenkins

• ISBN13: 9780521187398
• ISBN10: 0521187397
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

In this collection, an international team of contributors contests the conventional critical view of modernism as a transnational or supranational entity. They examine relationships between modernist poetry and place, and foreground issues of region and space, nation and location in the work of poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. The book brings the work of major canonical writers into juxtaposition with more neglected modernists such as Basil Bunting and Dylan Thomas, writers whose investment in the concepts of region and nation, it is argued, contributed to their relative marginalization.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: locating modernisms: an overview

MacDiarmid in Montrose

Bunting and Welsh

Antithesis of place in the poetry and life of David Jones

'Shut in a yower of words': Dylan Thomas' Modernism

'Literally, for this': metonymies of national identity in Edward Thomas, Yeats and Auden

Reactions to their Burg: Irish Modernist poets of the 1930s

Pound's places

Wallace Stevens and America

Locating the Lyric: Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop and World War II

'In the published city': the New York School of Poets

Modernism deferred: Langston Hughes, Harlem and Jazz Montage

Index

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