Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers

by Keith Tuma

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810116235
• ISBN13: 9780810116238
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"