Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry - Determined Negations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Jason Lagapa
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	135
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-55283-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
LSN:	3-319-55283-X
Barcode:	9783319552835

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