Regional Modernisms

Neal Alexander; James Moran

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2013

Regional Modernisms

Neal Alexander and James Moran

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748669318

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	iv
Introduction: Regional Modernisms Neal Alexander and James Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 ‘that trouble’: Regional Modernism and ‘little magazines’ Andrew Thacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Chapter 2 The Regional Modernism of D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce Andrew Harrison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3 J. M. Synge, Authenticity, and the Regional Patrick Lonergan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 4 Pound, Yeats, and the Regional Repertory Theatres James Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Chapter 5 Capturing the Scale of Fiction at Mid-Century David James Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	104
Chapter 6 Regionalism and Modernity: The Case of Leo Walmsley Dominic Head Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 7 Hugh MacDiarmid’s Modernisms: Synthetic Scots and the Spectre of Robert Burns Drew Milne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Chapter 8 Welsh Modernist Poetry: Dylan Thomas, David Jones, and Lynette Roberts John Goodby and Chris Wigginton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Chapter 9 Between the Islands: Michael McLaverty, Late Modernism, and the Insular Turn John Brannigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
Chapter 10 The Idea of North: Basil Bunting and Regional Modernism Neal Alexander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: October 14, 2013
ISBN: 9780748669318