Regional Modernisms
Published on 14. October 2013
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-7486-6930-1 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the regional contexts of literary modernism, reading international aesthetics through local cultures
Where did literary modernism happen? In this book, a range of scholars seek to answer this question, re-evaluating the parameters of modernism in the light of recent developments in literary geography as well as literary history, examining an array of different literary forms including novels, poetry, theatre, and 'little magazines'. The volume identifies and appraises the local attachments of modernist texts in particular geographical regions and also interrogates the idea of the 'regional' in light of the alienating displacements of transnational modernity.
The essays collected here make fresh interventions in the field of modernist studies and acknowledge the legacies of regional modernisms for post-war representations of place and landscape. Individual essays discuss canonical figures (W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence) as well as more marginal or lesser-known writers (Dylan Thomas, Hugh MacDiarmid, J. M. Synge, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alfred Orage, Leo Walmsley, Lynette Roberts, Michael McLaverty, and Basil Bunting) from across Britain and Ireland.
Where did literary modernism happen? In this book, a range of scholars seek to answer this question, re-evaluating the parameters of modernism in the light of recent developments in literary geography as well as literary history, examining an array of different literary forms including novels, poetry, theatre, and 'little magazines'. The volume identifies and appraises the local attachments of modernist texts in particular geographical regions and also interrogates the idea of the 'regional' in light of the alienating displacements of transnational modernity.
The essays collected here make fresh interventions in the field of modernist studies and acknowledge the legacies of regional modernisms for post-war representations of place and landscape. Individual essays discuss canonical figures (W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce and D.H. Lawrence) as well as more marginal or lesser-known writers (Dylan Thomas, Hugh MacDiarmid, J. M. Synge, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Alfred Orage, Leo Walmsley, Lynette Roberts, Michael McLaverty, and Basil Bunting) from across Britain and Ireland.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-6930-1 (9780748669301)
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Persons
Neal Alexander is Lecturer in Twentieth-century Literature at Aberystwyth University. He is the author of Ciaran Carson: Space, Place, Writing (Liverpool University Press, 2010) and co-editor of Poetry & Geography (Liverpool University Press, 2013) and Regional Modernisms (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). James Moran is head of drama at the University of Nottingham and is the author of a number of books and articles about the literature of Ireland and the cultural history of the English midlands, including Staging the Easter Rising (Cork University Press, 2005), Irish Birmingham: A History (Liverpool University Press, 2010), and The Plays of Sean O'Casey (Methuen, 2013). He also presents the regular book-club feature on BBC Radio Nottingham.
Content
Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Regional modernisms, Neal Alexander and James Moran; 1. 'that trouble': Regional modernism and 'little magazines', Andrew Thacker; 2. The regional modernism of D.H. Lawrence and James Joyce, Andrew Harrison; 3. J.M. Synge, authenticity, and the regional, Patrick Lonergan; 4. Pound, Yeats, and the regional repertory theatres, James Moran; 5. Capturing the scale of fiction at mid-century, David James; 6. Regionalism and modernity: The case of Leo Walmsley, Dominic Head; 7. Hugh MacDiarmid's modernisms: Synthetic Scots and the spectre of Robert Burns, Drew Milne; 8. Welsh modernist poetry: Dylan Thomas, David Jones, Lynette Roberts, John Goodby and Chris Wigginton; 9. Between the islands: Michael McLaverty, late modernism, and the insular turn, John Brannigan; 10. The idea of north: Basil Bunting and regional modernism, Neal Alexander; Select Bibliography; Index.