Matthew Hart is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Brief Biography
- Hometown:
- London, England
- Place of Birth:
- Ottawa, Canada
Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing
by Matthew Hart
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- ISBN-13: 9780199324712
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication date: 09/01/2013
- Series: Modernist Literature and Culture Series
- Edition description: Reprint
- Pages: 256
- Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
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Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity? Are vernacular poetries inherently provincial or implicitly xenophobic? How did modernist poets use vernacular language to re-imagine the relations between people, their languages, and the communities in which they live?
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"Hart writes with clarity and authority, and he connects his chapters effectively. Although Nations of Nothing but Poetry presents a sustained and unified argument, each chapter is also cohesive enough to be consulted individually...The time and financing that fostered Hart's research and writing has paid off in his fine book, which is likely to guide the terms of debate in important new criticism." —Style"It is a real pleasure to have well-written, intelligent, sensitive, and properly sourced criticism on these poets...One of Hart's strengths is an intuitive sense for the structures of feeling that run through his poets' meters and their politics, and for what forces those structures are resisting. Another is the implications for more canonical and nation-bound modernisms." —Comparative Literature Studies