书目名称 | Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry |
副标题 | Determined Negations |
编辑 | Jason Lagapa |
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概述 | Takes together negative theology, American literature, and utopian studies..Highlights a new direction in scholarship on experimental poetry..Examines the poetry of Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charl |
丛书名称 | American Literature Readings in the 21st Century |
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描述 | .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.. |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | distopian; religion; experimental poetry; God; religious; pluralist |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55284-2 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85617-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-55284-2Series ISSN 2634-579X Series E-ISSN 2634-5803 |
issn_series | 2634-579X |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |