Invisible Terrain - John Ashbery and the Aesthetics of Nature

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Joseph Ross, Concordia University Dr Stephen J. Ross earned his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2013. He is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University in Montreal, and from 2013-15 he was a Teaching Fellow in American Literature at the University of Warwick. He is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury Press), and is collaborating on the first complete translation and critical edition of Processions, the poetic masterpiece of the Yiddish American modernist Mikhl Likht. He publishes essays and reviews on modern and contemporary literature, and is a founding editor of the literary web-journal Wave Composition. Klappentext Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery's poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery's work to be a case study of the dramatic transformation of nature in art and literature since World War II. Zusammenfassung Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery's poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery's work to be a case study of the dramatic transformation of nature in art and literature since World War II. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Invisible Avant-Garde: Nature, New Realism, and Ashbery's France 2: The Delta of Living into Everything: Ashbery's Riverine Poetics 3: A Language That Is Ever Green: Ashbery's Pastoral 4: Out of the Endless Bathos: Ashbery's 'Bad' Nature Poetry 5: The Season Is Stalled: Ashbery's Changing Climate Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephen J. Ross, Stephen J. (Concordia University) Ross, Stephen Joseph Ross, Ross Stephen J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2017
• EAN: 9780198798385
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879838-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature