num_pages: 299
description: 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.
language: English
title: Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers
titlecomplete: Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
ratings_count: 5
series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
publisher: Northwestern University Press