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The Zen of ecopoetics : cosmological imaginations in modernist American poetry / Enaiê Mairê Azambuja.

"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...

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Main Author: Azambuja, Enaiê Mairê (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Series:Routledge environmental literature, culture and media.
Subjects:
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) > United States.
Buddhism in literature.
Buddhism and literature > United States.
Ecocriticism.
Poetics.
American poetry.
Buddhism and literature.
Modernism (Literature)
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Zen and ecopoetic imagination
  • Zen resonances in ecocriticism
  • Zen-inflected language and imagination in William Carlos Williams's Paterson and Spring and all
  • The Tao of the non-human: ineffability, agentic assemblages, and ecosemiotics in Marianne Moore's poetics
  • The alchemy of imagination and material reality: nothingness, impermanence, and vital materialism in Wallace Stevens's poetry
  • Zen subversion and planetary entanglement in E. E. Cummings's poetic experimentation
  • The ineffable in modernist American cosmopoetics.

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