Resistance to science in contemporary American poetry / / Bryan Walpert

• Autore: Walpert Bryan
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.540936
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Science in literature; Literature and science - United States - History - 20th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Resistance to science in contemporary American poetry
• ISBN: 1-136-58728-4; 1-283-45931-0; 9786613459312; 1-136-58729-2; 0-203-16155-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809320903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; ; 3.