Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration From Einstein to the Present

Anchored in the postwar period but drawing on a long history of poetry and science, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present charts surprising connections between poetry and extraterrestrial space.

List of contents

• Introduction: The Lyric and the American Cosmos


• 1: The Lyrical Planet: Global Aesthetics and Planetary Ethics


• 2: "Galaxies of Women": Containment Culture and the Queer Astronomical Lyric


• 3: "The Moon's Corpse Rising": The Poetic Moon and Imperialist Nostalgia from the U.S. to Kashmir


• 4: "Out of This World": Cosmopolitanism in Cold War Émigré Poetry


• 5: "Vast and Unreadable": Tracy K. Smith, Astronomy, and Lyric Opacity in African American Poetry

About the author

Margaret Greaves is an associate professor of English at Skidmore College. Her research interests include poetry and poetics, the history of science, genre theory, and transnational literature. Her essays have appeared in Contemporary Literature, College Literature, The Journal of Modern Literature, and Seamus Heaney in Context.

Summary

Anchored in the postwar period but drawing on a long history of poetry and science, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present charts surprising connections between poetry and extraterrestrial space.

Additional text

In her intelligent and absorbing book, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present, Margaret Greaves reunites the exploration of space, by both astronauts and mere Earthlings, with the concerns and achievements of lyric poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Margaret Greaves, Margaret (Associate Professor of English Greaves, Greaves Margaret
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.06.2023
• EAN: 9780192867452
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286745-2
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Astronomy, space & time, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Astronomy, space and time, SCIENCE / Space Science / Astronomy