The Wild That Attracts Us
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The Wild That Attracts Us

New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Wild That Attracts Us

New Critical Essays on Robinson Jeffers

About this book

The first collection in twenty years of essays on Robinson Jeffers, one of the great American poets of the twentieth century, this work signals the sea change in Jeffers scholarship, as well as the increasing breadth and depth of criticism of the literature of the American West. The essays assembled here highlight issues and theories critical to Jeffers studies, among them the advance of ecocriticism, the reimagining of regionalism as place studies, the continuing development of cultural studies and the new historicism, the increasingly poignant vector of science and literature, the new formalism, particularly as it pertains to narrative verse, and the glaring omission of feminist analysis in Jeffers scholarship. Jeffers has always appealed to a wider audience than many twentieth-century poets, and this book will speak to that general readership as well as to scholars and students.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: “The wild that attracts us”—in the World and on the Page / ShaunAnne Tangney
  8. 1: Robinson Jeffers and the Contemplation of Consciousness / Christopher Damien
  9. 2: The Neurasthenic Logic of Robinson Jeffers’s Antiurbanism / J. Bradford Campbell
  10. 3: Constructed Witness: The Drama of Presence in Jeffers’s Lyric Voice / Tim Hunt
  11. 4: Jeffers, Pessimism, and Time / Robert Zaller
  12. 5: Knocking Our Heads to Pieces against the Night: Going Cosmic with Robinson Jeffers / Anthony Lioi
  13. 6: “The mould to break away from”: An Ecofeminist Reading of “Roan Stallion” / ShaunAnne Tangney
  14. 7: Praxis, Gnosis, Poiesis: Inhabitation as Performative Myth in Thoreau and Jeffers / Bryon Williams
  15. 8: Jeffers’s 1907 Hike in the San Bernardino Mountains: A Closer Look / Robert Kafka
  16. 9: The Warm Reception of Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia / Petr Kopecký
  17. 10: Robinson Jeffers, Translation, and the Return of Narrative / David J. Rothman
  18. Contributors
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover