The zen of ecopoetics : cosmological imaginations in modernist American poetry /
This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and E.E. C...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge/Earthscan,
[2024].
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| Series: | Routledge environmental literature, culture and media.
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| Summary: | This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics, focusing on four key poets, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and E.E. Cummings. Bringing together a range of texts and perspectives and using an interdisciplinary approach that draws on Eastern and Western philosophies, including Zen and Taoism, posthumanism and new materialism, this book adds to and extends the field of ecocriticism into new debates. Its broad approach, informed by literary studies, ecocriticism and religious studies, proposes the expansion of ecopoetics to include the relationship between poetic materiality and spirituality. It develops 'cosmopoetics' as a new literary-theoretical concept of the poetic imagination as a contemplative means to achieving a deeper understanding of the human interdependence with the non-human. Addressing the critical gap between materialism and spirituality in modernist American poetry, The Zen of Ecopoetics promotes new forms of awareness and understanding about our relationship with non-human beings and environments. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry and religious studies. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032415710 1032415711 9781032415734 1032415738 |