{"id":54,"date":"2010-11-24T12:43:36","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T12:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:45:58","slug":"scott-herring-regional-modernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Scott Herring: Regional Modernism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/mfs\/summary\/v055\/55.1.herring.html\">http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/mfs\/summary\/v055\/55.1.herring.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/rpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/55.1.herring.pdf\">Herring PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MFS Modern Fiction Studies<br \/>\nVolume 55, \u00c2\u00a0Number 1, \u00c2\u00a0Spring 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724<\/p>\n<p>DOI: 10.1353\/mfs.0.1596<br \/>\nAfterword:<br \/>\n<strong>Regional Modernism and Transnational Regionalism<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Europe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d crowed Iowa-based painter Grant Wood in a lesserknown modernist manifesto, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has lost much of its magic. Gertrude Stein comes to us from Paris and is only a seven days\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wonder. Ezra Pound\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new volume seems all compound of echoes from a lost world. The expatriates do not fit in with the newer America, so greatly changed from the old\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (19). Wood\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe of American Gothic fame\u00e2\u20ac\u201dtitled his snippy comments Revolt against the City, and in this 1935 essay argued for a quiet revolution that would stymie metropolitan-based modernisms: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But if it is not vocal\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat least in the sense of issuing pronunciamentos, challenges, and new credos\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe revolt is certainly very active. In literature, though by no means new, the exploitation of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcprovinces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 has increased remarkably; the South, the Middle West, the Southwest have at the moment hosts of interpreters whose Pulitzer-prize works and best sellers direct attention to their chosen regions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (8). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Because of this new emphasis upon native materials,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Wood went on to explain, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the artist no longer finds it necessary to migrate even to New York, or to seek any great metropolis. No longer is it necessary for him to suffer the confusing cosmopolitanism, the noise, the too intimate gregariousness of the large city\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (22\u00e2\u20ac\u201c23).<br \/>\nI do not want to dismiss Wood\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-urbanism, his insufferable claims against cosmopolitanism, his social and most likely racial conservatism, and his emphatically American exceptionalism. But I do want to highlight that in the midst of these questionable politics lays an inchoate theory for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153regional modernism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d decades before the phrase achieved wide currency in academic circles. The term \u00e2\u20ac\u0153regional modernism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d first originated in architecture studies, where it came\u00e2\u20ac\u201d and where it continues\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto characterize building design that opposed the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/mfs\/summary\/v055\/55.1.herring.html Herring PDF MFS Modern Fiction Studies Volume 55, \u00c2\u00a0Number 1, \u00c2\u00a0Spring 2009 E-ISSN: 1080-658X Print ISSN: 0026-7724 DOI: 10.1353\/mfs.0.1596 Afterword: Regional Modernism and Transnational Regionalism In lieu of an abstract, here is a preview of the article. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Europe,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d crowed Iowa-based painter Grant Wood in a lesserknown modernist manifesto, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has lost much of its magic. 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