Remainders : American poetry at nature's end / Margaret Ronda

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ronda, Margaret, author.

Series:

Post 45.

Post 45

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Nature in literature.

Environmentalism in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages).

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018

Summary:

A literary history of the Great Acceleration, 'Remainders' examines an archive of postwar American poetry that reflects on new dimensions of ecological crisis. These poems portray various forms of remainders - from obsolescent goods and waste products to atmospheric pollution and melting glaciers - that convey the ecological consequences of global economic development. While North American ecocriticism has tended to focus on narrative forms in its investigations of environmental consciousness and ethics, Margaret Ronda highlights the ways that poetry explores other dimensions of ecological relationships. The poems she considers engage in more ambivalent ways with the problem of human agency and the limits of individual perception, and they are attuned to the melancholic and damaging aspects of environmental existence in a time of generalized crisis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. North Central, South Side

2. “The Advancing Signs of the Air”

3. “NOT PEOPLE’S PARK / PEOPLE’S PLANET”

4. Mourning and Melancholia at the End of Nature

5. “A Rescue That Comes Too Late”

Coda

Notes

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503604896

1503604896

OCLC:

1198930708