The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-46474-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3309 g

Reihe: The New Urban Atlantic

Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tovey, Paige

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Romantic Pastoral: Snyder's Ecological Literary Inheritance 2. Snyder's Twentieth Century Eco-Romanticism 3. Romantic Aspiration, Romantic Doubt 4. Snyder's Post-Romantic Ecological Vision: The Shaman as Poet/Prophet 5. The Measured Chaos of Snyder's Eco-Poetic Form 6. Snyder's Experimentations with Post-Romantic Ecological Form 7. Mountains as Romantic Emblems of Revelation 8. Rivers as Romantic Emblems of Creation

Über Autor(innen)

Paige Tovey holds a PhD in English Literary Studies from Durham University, UK where she was the recipient of a MHRA Research Associateship (2010-2012) within the Department of English. She has published on subjects ranging from the influence of Alexander Pope on Percy Bysshe Shelley to the post-Romantic poetic form of Gary Snyder.