American Poetic Materialism From Whitman to Stevens

In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms.

List of contents

1. Intimate atomisms: toward a history of aporetic materialism; 2. Whitman's atom: sex and death in the 'wide flat space' of Leaves of Grass; 3. Emerson's atom: the matter of suffering; 4. Santayana's Lucretius: the chance for an ethical atomism; 5. Matter at the end of the mind: Stevens and the call for quantum poetics.

About the author

Mark Noble is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He received his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 2009. Noble's essays have been published in American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Summary

At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, Mark Noble explores poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Noble, Mark (Georgia State University) Noble
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107084506
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08450-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies