American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9781107084506
Subjects: American poetry, history and criticism; Subjectivity in literature; Modernism (literature); Poetics
Description: Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.--Provided by publisher