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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461493203321

Autore

Walpert Bryan

Titolo

Resistance to science in contemporary American poetry / / Bryan Walpert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-45931-0

9786613459312

1-136-58729-2

0-203-16155-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; ; 3

Disciplina

811/.540936

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Science in literature

Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Popularization, praise, and the aesthetic pleasures of science -- Poetry, science and claims on knowledge -- The ghost of romanticism: perception and imagination -- The ghost of modernism: relativity of knowledge -- The ghost of language: the postmodern subject and the poiesis of science -- The ghost of science: knowledge as intervention.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of resistance, using as case studies the poets Alison Hawthorne Deming, Pattiann Rogers, Albert Goldbarth, and Joan Retallack to trace the recapitulation of romantic arguments (inherited from Keats, Shelly, and Coleridge, which in turn were produced in part in response to Newtonian physics), moderni