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Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Popularization, Praise, and the Aesthetic Pleasures of Science 2. Poetry, Science and Claims on Knowledge 3. The Ghost of Romanticism: Perception and Imagination 4. The Ghost of Modernism: Relativity of Knowledge 5. The Ghost of Language: The Postmodern Subject and the Poiesis of Science 6. The Ghost of Science: Knowledge as Intervention Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index
Biography
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.
