03101oam 2200685I 450 991079045080332120230124190211.01-136-58728-41-283-45931-097866134593121-136-58729-20-203-16155-610.4324/9780203161555 (CKB)2670000000148433(EBL)958750(OCoLC)798530426(SSID)ssj0000678962(PQKBManifestationID)12246888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678962(PQKBWorkID)10745557(PQKB)11157581(MiAaPQ)EBC958750(Au-PeEL)EBL958750(CaPaEBR)ebr10687146(CaONFJC)MIL345931(OCoLC)782917444(FINmELB)ELB136198(EXLCZ)99267000000014843320180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrResistance to science in contemporary American poetry /Bryan WalpertNew York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (226 p.)Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;3Description based upon print version of record.1-138-37802-X 0-415-89334-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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), moderniRoutledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ;3.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismScience in literatureLiterature and scienceUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Science in literature.Literature and scienceHistory811/.540936Walpert Bryan.965126MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790450803321Resistance to science in contemporary American poetry3762153UNINA