The transatlantic eco-romanticism of Gary Snyder / Paige Tovey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tovey, Paige, 1978- author.

Series:

New urban Atlantic

The new urban Atlantic

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Snyder, Gary, 1930---Criticism and interpretation.

Snyder, Gary.

Snyder, Gary, 1930-.

Ecology in literature.

Romanticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

244 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

The transatlantic eco romanticism of Gary Snyder

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors-Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau-this book explores the tension between urbanization and over-industrialization. Paige Tovey evaluates the eco-poetic workings of what Snyder himself calls "cross-fertilizations" and argues that his poetry reworks British Romantic as well as American Transcendentalist and modernist ideas and forms. This study examines the ways in which Snyder negotiates the urban and the natural, and traces the history of the Eco-Romantic poetic tradition as it is disseminated from "Old World" to "New World" across the Atlantic. Here, the Romantic ecopoetic tradition finds new life in Pulitzer Prize-winner Gary Snyder's poetry and poetics; and the dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

The romantic pastoral: Snyder's ecological literary inheritance

Snyder's twentieth century eco-romanticism

Romantic aspiration, romantic doubt

Snyder's post-romantic ecological vision: the shaman as poet/prophet

The measured chaos of snyder's eco-poetic form

Snyder's experimentations with post-romantic ecological form

Mountains as romantic emblems of revelation

Rivers as romantic emblems of creation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137340146

1137340142

OCLC:

853113614