Teaching Modernist Poetry

This book recognises that modernist poetry can be both difficult and rewarding to teach. Leading scholars and poets from the UK and the US offer practical, innovative, up to date strategies for teaching the reading and writing of modernist poetry across its long diverse histories, taking in experimentation, performance, hypertext and much more.

About the Author(s)

By Nicky Marsh and Peter Middleton

NICKY MARSH is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southampton, UK and the Director of Southampton's Centre for Contemporary Writing. She is the author of a number of articles on modern and contemporary writing. Her books include Democracy in Contemporary U.S Womens Poetry (Palgrave, 2007) and Money, Finance, and Speculation and Finance in Recent British Fiction (forthcoming in 2008).

PETER MIDDLETON is Professor in English Literature at the University of Southampton, UK. His publications include Distant Reading: Performance, Readership and Consumption (Alabama University Press, 2004), Aftermath (Salt, 2003), Literatures of Memory: History, Time and Space in Postwar Writing (with Tim Woods, Manchester University Press, 2000) and The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture (Routledge, 1992).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Pedagogy and Poetics; N.Marsh
The Elusive Allusion: Poetry as Exegesis; P.Nicholls
Politics and Modernist Poetics; D.Milne
Science and Poetry; M.H.Whitworth
“The New comes forward”: Anglo-American Modernist Women Poets; H.Tarlo
Race, Modernism and Institutions; C.Sweeney
Contemporary British Modernisms; P.Barry
Modernist Pedagogy at the End of the Lecture: IT and the Poetics Classroom; A.Filreis
Reading and Writing Through Found Materials: from modernism to contemporary practice; R.Olsen
Experiment in Practice and Speculation in Poetics; R.Sheppard
Wreading, Writing, Wresponding; C.Bernstein
Early Modernism, Late Modernism, and Interpretative Ingenuity; P.Middleton
Further Reading