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What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? This book answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and 'Black Atlantic' poetries from the landmark modernist year of 19...

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Main Author: Hart, Matthew, Ph.D
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Series:Modernist literature & culture.
Subjects:
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > English-speaking countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
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Summary:What happens when poets combine vernacular language with the spirit of modernity? Can a poem be cosmopolitanism and vernacular at the same time? This book answers these questions through case studies of Scottish, English, and 'Black Atlantic' poetries from the landmark modernist year of 1922 through the mid 1970s.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 240 p.).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199776191 (ebook) :

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