LEADER 04391nam 22005895 450 001 9910255066003321 005 20230810191352.0 010 $a3-319-55284-8 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-55284-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000001364362 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-55284-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4857601 035 $a(PPN)249992760 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001364362 100 $a20170511d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNegative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry $eDetermined Negations /$fby Jason Lagapa 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 135 p.) 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 311 $a3-319-55283-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Our Message Was Electric: Susan Howe and the Resuscitation of Failed Utopian Projects -- And Be Whole Again: Antiphony, Deprivation, and the ?Not-Yet? Place of Utopia in Nathaniel Mackey?s Splay Anthem -- Leave Us the World: Apophasis, Dissent and the Pluralist Politics of Charles Bernstein?s Poetry -- Pages to Come: Utopian Longing and the Merging the Detective Story with the Artist?s Novel in Alice Notley?s Disobedience -- Afterword - Not Yet the End: the Resistance to Closure in Bloch?s Anticipatory Consciousness and Contemporary Experimental Poetry . 330 $a?In Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry, Jason Lagapa takes the next step in illuminating the Utopian function at work in contemporary American poetry. Steeped in the Marxist tradition of such critics as Ernst Bloch and Fredric Jameson, Lagapa carefully analyzes the work of four crucial poets?Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley?in order to demonstrate how these poets? innovative strategies mobilize the anticipatory force that Bloch names the ?not yet.? Lagapa makes convincing use of the tradition of negative theology, a tradition predicated on rhetorical premises that are surprisingly appropriate to both Utopian thinking and poetic experimentation. At a time when such thinking is at a premium, Lagapa reminds us that our poetry remains an abundant storehouse of visionary tropes.? ?Norman Finkelstein, Professor of English, Jewish Studies, Xavier University, USA This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God. With individual chapters on works by such poets as Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley, this book illustrates how a strategy of negation similarly proves optimal for depicting the subject of utopia in literary works. Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations contends that negative statements in experimental poetry illustrate the potential for utopian social change, not by portraying an ideal world itself but by revealing the very challenge of representing utopia directly. 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aComparative literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aPoetry 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aComparative Literature 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aNorth American Literature 615 0$aComparative literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 14$aComparative Literature. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 676 $a809 700 $aLagapa$b Jason$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0886731 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255066003321 996 $aNegative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry$91980375 997 $aUNINA