Regional Modernisms booker
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.
Regional Modernisms epub.pub H Lawrence as well as 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 Regional Modernisms.
