Curve Away from Stillness : Science Poems
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Author : John Allman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811210812
Poems convey the art and science of the world of physics, chemistry, biology, planets and principles.
Author : Bryan Walpert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 32,84 MB
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136587284
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.
Author : Pamela Gossin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 38,5 MB
Release : 2002-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313011060
Science and literature have always been strange bedfellows. Like puzzle pieces, they fit because they're different. Some of the greatest works of world literature have been inspired by the marvels of the scientific world. Scientists have written works of the imagination. Even formal scientific writings have been known to employ rhetoric. There is a tendency to think of literature—and the humanities in general—as having little to do with science. Yet scholars have conducted fruitful studies of the history and philosophy of science. With the rise of technology, scholars have also applied scientific analysis to the study of literature and the creative process. The intersection of scientific and humanistic inquiry is finally being mapped. This volume includes more than 650 A-Z entries on topics and themes in science and literature, significant writers, key scientists, seminal works, and important theories and methodologies. This reference defines the rapidly emerging interdisciplinary field of literature and science. An introductory essay traces the history of the field, its growing reputation, and the current state of research. Broad in scope, the volume covers world literature from its beginnings to the present day and illuminates the role of science in literature and literary studies. A wide range of experts contributed entries to this volume, each of which concludes with a brief bibliography. The entire volume closes with a list of works for further reading.
Author : John Allman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811215770
An evocative, often mischievous remembrance and reinvention by the poet of his youth in the New York City of the '40s and '50s. In Loew's Triboro, John Allman's fourth collection of poems with New Directions, the poet recalls the movie palace in Astoria, Queensone of the five boroughs of New York Cityand its centrality to the lives and fantasies of the people in the neighborhood. In a combination of prose poems and free verse, sometimes darkly funny, Allman juxtaposes vignettes from the streets of Astoria with the movies of the period, revisioning such film noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice, Double Indemnity, and The Asphalt Jungle. The book itself becomes a narrative place where real and cinematic lives interact, where movies are the engines of history and myth and the motif of journey is implicit from the first poem to the last.
Author : John Allman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780811217101
A moving and eloquent new collection of poetry celebrating Allman's winter home in South Carolina.
Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1987-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811210348
Since 1936, the New Directions in Prose and Poetry anthologies have served as vehicles for the presentation of new and variant trends in world literature.
Author : John Allman
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811212748
Eight stories on New Yorkers. In A Chronic Case, a father kills a man who had an affair with his daughter, Sisters is on two spinsters, and in Losers and Gainers, a woman describes her good-for-nothing boyfriend. By the author of Carve Away from Stillness.
Author : James Laughlin
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,34 MB
Release : 1990-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811211468
Since 1936, the New Directions in Prose and Poetry anthologies have served as vehicles for the presentation of new and variant trends in world literature.
Author : Harriet Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1988
Category : American poetry
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