Resistance to science in contemporary American poetry
By: Bryan Walpert
Series: Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature -- 3
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415893343; 9780203161555
Subjects: Literature and science; History and criticism; Science in literature; American poetry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Popularization, praise, and the aesthetic pleasures of science; title: Poetry, science and claims on knowledge; title: The ghost of romanticism: perception and imagination; title: The ghost of modernism: relativity of knowledge; title: The ghost of language: the postmodern subject and the poiesis of science; title: The ghost of science: knowledge as intervention.