Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations (American Literature Readings in the 21st Century) ISBN-13: 9783319856179

ISBN-13: 9783319856179

Binding: Paperback

Author: Lagapa, Jason

Details: This book explores the utopian imagination in contemporary American poetry and the ways in which experimental poets formulate a utopian poetics by adopting the rhetorical principles of negative theology, which proposes using negative statements as a means of attesting to the superior, unrepresentable being of God. With individual chapters on works by such poets as Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey, Charles Bernstein, and Alice Notley, this book illustrates how a strategy of negation similarly proves optimal for depicting the subject of utopia in literary works.

Negative Theology and Utopian Thought in Contemporary American Poetry: Determined Negations contends that negative statements in experimental poetry illustrate the potential for utopian social change, not by portraying an ideal world itself but by revealing the very challenge of representing utopia directly.

Release Date: 27-07-2018

Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches

Languages: English

Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Number Of Pages: 145