Locations of Literary Modernism

In This Collection An International Team Of Contributors Contests The Conventional Critical View Of Modernism As A Transnational Or Supranational Entity. They Examine Relationships Between Modernist Poetry And Place And Foreground Issues Of Region And Space Nation And Location In The Work Of Poets Such As Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens And Marianne Moore. The Book Brings The Work Of Major Canonical Writers Into Juxtaposition With More Neglected Modernists Such As Basil Bunting And Dylan Thomas Writers Whose Investment In The Concepts Of Region And Nation It Is Argued Contributed To Their Relative Marginalization.