1st Edition

Navigating the Transnational in Modern American Literature and Culture

Edited By Tara Stubbs, Doug Haynes Copyright 2017
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

This study develops the important work carried out on American literature through the frameworks of transnational, transatlantic, and trans-local studies to ask what happens when these same aspects become intrinsic to the critical narrative. Much cultural criticism since the 1990s has sought to displace perceptions of American exceptionalism with broader notions of Atlanticism, transnationalism,... Read more

Introduction: Axes of Influence: Navigating the Transnational



[Tara Stubbs and Doug Haynes]





Dickinson, Plath and The Ballooning Tradition of American Poetry





[Will May]





"Nature is bad art:" Bad Transnationalism from Earthrise to Deep Horizon





[Stephen Ross]





The Man and the Echo: W. B. Yeats in contemporary American poetry and song





[Tara Stubbs]





Good Grief: Paul Muldoon’s Elegies from Ireland to America and Beyond





[Erica McAlpine]





"Thus he ran from home / toward home:" Influence and Authority in the Poetry of John Berryman]





[Philip Coleman]





Ginsberg, Burroughs and the Ghosts of the Avant-Garde





[Will Norman]





"Gray and Waiting:" telepathy and terror in Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977





[Doug Haynes]





The Culture of Realignment: Enlightened and "I can’t breathe"





[Stephen Shapiro]





Locating transnationalism: Circle magazine and California modernism in the 1940s





[Joanna Pawlik]





Shifting Peripheries: Basil Bunting, Lorine Niedecker and the Translocal Avant-Garde





[Annabel Haynes]





Stuttered Orientations: Robert Creeley and Paul Celan via Jean Daive





[John Steen]





"A Selective Embrace:" Singling Out All Our Names in Obama’s End Times





[John Masterson]





Antagonism, Antagonism!: Faulkner, Haiti, Text





[James Harding]





Typology and Subjectivity in Faulkner and Beowulf





[Hannah Bailey-McKendrick]





Afterword





[Paul Giles]

Biography

Tara Stubbs is a University Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing in the Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University, UK.





Doug Haynes is a Lecturer in American Studies at the School of English, University of Sussex, UK.