Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) - Softcover

Tuma, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116235 ISBN 13: 9780810116238

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging American views of a British poetry dominated by antimodernism while discussing the role of rhetorics of national identity on both sides of the Atlantic in the persistence of these views. Devoting its most extensive commentary to a collection of British modernist and postmodernist poets, it attacks the relegation of British poetry to the zones of the quaint, making a compelling case for renewed engagements with fields of British poetry deserving of attention.

About this title

About the Author:

Keith Tuma is an associate professor in the Department of English at Miami University in Ohio. He is the author of Mina Loy: Woman and Poet.

Review:

"One hopes that this book heralds and signals both more and less polemicism: fewer attacks on spurious straw figures and the passing of judgment based on prejudice, but more explanation, analysis, and reading of the poets and poetry on their own terms." --Contemporary Literature

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810116235
• ISBN 13: 9780810116238
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 299