Enaiê Mairê Azambuja

The Zen of Ecopoetics

Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

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Produktbeschreibung

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. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry and religious studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032415710
• ISBN-10: 1032415711
• Artikelnr.: 69431834

Autorenporträt

Enaiê Mairê Azambuja is Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Surrey, U.K. Her research and teaching focus on modernist literature and poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and interdisciplinary studies in literature, philosophy, and religion.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Zen and the ecopoetic imagination 2. Zen resonances in ecocriticism 3.
Zen-inflected language and imagination in William Carlos Williams's
Paterson and Spring and All 4. The Tao of the non-human: ineffability,
agentic assemblages, and ecosemiotics in Marianne Moore's poetics 5. The
alchemy of imagination and material reality: nothingness, impermanence, and
vital materialism in Wallace Stevens's poetry 6. Zen subversion and
planetary entanglement in E. E. Cummings's poetic experimentation 7. The
ineffable in modernist American cosmopoetics