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Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry - Couverture rigide

Walpert, Bryan

 
9780415893343: Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0415893348 ISBN 13 : 9780415893343
Editeur : Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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), modernist arguments (inherited from Eliot and Pound, arguments influenced in part by relativity and quantum theory), and postmodernist arguments (arguments informed by post-structuralist theory, e.g. Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, with affinities to arguments for the limitations of science in the philosophy, sociology, and rhetoric of science). Some of these poems reveal the discursive ideologies of scientific language-reveal, in other words, the performativity of scientific language. In doing so, these poems themselves can also be read as performative acts and, therefore, as forms of intervention rather than representation. Reading Retallack alongside science studies scholar Karen Barad, the book concludes by proposing that viewing knowledge as a form of intervention, rather than representation, offers a bridge between contemporary poetry and science.

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À propos de l'auteur

Bryan Walpert, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in the School of English & Media Studies at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Etymology and A History of Glass, as well as a collection of short stories, Ephraim's Eyes.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415893348
ISBN 13 
9780415893343
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
232
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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