Matthew Hart
Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English & Comparative Literature, Columbia University (http://english.columbia.edu/people/profile/386)
Founding Co-Editor, Literature Now, a book series from Columbia University Press (http://cup.columbia.edu/series/literature-now)
Former President and Motherboard Member (2011-15), ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (http://artsofthepresent.org).
Former Associate Editor (2008-15), Contemporary Literature (http://cl.uwpress.org/)
Advisory Editor, JML: Journal of Modern Literature (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jml/)
Phone: 212-854-6407
Address: 602 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.
Founding Co-Editor, Literature Now, a book series from Columbia University Press (http://cup.columbia.edu/series/literature-now)
Former President and Motherboard Member (2011-15), ASAP: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (http://artsofthepresent.org).
Former Associate Editor (2008-15), Contemporary Literature (http://cl.uwpress.org/)
Advisory Editor, JML: Journal of Modern Literature (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jml/)
Phone: 212-854-6407
Address: 602 Philosophy Hall
1150 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10027
U.S.A.
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Books by Matthew Hart
Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity?
Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers this question through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s to 1990s. Matthew Hart presents a new theory of a "synthetic vernacular"-writing that explores the aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual commitments to the local and the global. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical writers, combining new literary histories--such as the story of how Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet Laureate of Liberia--with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot.
More broadly, the book reveals how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as its authority was challenged as never before. Through deft juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist poetry in English--one that disrupts the critical opposition between nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political history of modernist cosmopolitanism.
Papers by Matthew Hart
airport’s threshold compromises Westphalian territoriality in its strictest sense and yet the state, rather than relinquishing any of its power, actually enhances its ability to manage and survey the people traveling to and through its territory. The article draws on legal and social-scientific research into aviation, immigration, and criminal law; theoretical work on territoriality; and, most directly, the imaginative and speculative labor of British artist Mark Wallinger (b. 1959), whose video installation, Threshold to the Kingdom (1998), provides the article's titleand its major example.
Cheyette and Peter Boxall, eds., *The Oxford History of the Novel, Vol. 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940* (Oxford: Oxford U. P., forthcoming Jan. 2016), 480-493.
Modernism is typically associated with novelty and urbanity. So what happens when poets identify small communities and local languages with the spirit of transnational modernity?
Nations of Nothing But Poetry answers this question through case studies of British, Caribbean, and American poetries from the 1920s to 1990s. Matthew Hart presents a new theory of a "synthetic vernacular"-writing that explores the aesthetic and ideological tensions within modernism's dual commitments to the local and the global. Chapters focus on a mixture of canonical and non-canonical writers, combining new literary histories--such as the story of how Melvin B. Tolson, while a resident of Oklahoma, was appointed Poet Laureate of Liberia--with analyses of poems by Gertrude Stein, W. H. Auden, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot.
More broadly, the book reveals how the language of modernist poetry was shaped by the incompletely globalized nature of a world in which the nation-state continued to be a primary mediator of cultural and political identity, even as its authority was challenged as never before. Through deft juxtaposition, Hart develops a new interpretation of modernist poetry in English--one that disrupts the critical opposition between nationalism and the transnational, paving the way for a political history of modernist cosmopolitanism.
airport’s threshold compromises Westphalian territoriality in its strictest sense and yet the state, rather than relinquishing any of its power, actually enhances its ability to manage and survey the people traveling to and through its territory. The article draws on legal and social-scientific research into aviation, immigration, and criminal law; theoretical work on territoriality; and, most directly, the imaginative and speculative labor of British artist Mark Wallinger (b. 1959), whose video installation, Threshold to the Kingdom (1998), provides the article's titleand its major example.
Cheyette and Peter Boxall, eds., *The Oxford History of the Novel, Vol. 7: British and Irish Fiction since 1940* (Oxford: Oxford U. P., forthcoming Jan. 2016), 480-493.