How Long to Read Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry by Bryan Walpert

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book examines types of resistance in contemporary poetry to the authority of scientific knowledge, tracing the source of these resistances to both their literary precedents and the scientific zeitgeists that helped to produce them. Walpert argues that contemporary poetry offers a palimpsest of resistance, using as case studies the poets Alison Hawthorne Deming, Pattiann Rogers, Albert Goldbarth, and Joan Retallack to trace the recapitulation of romantic arguments (inherited from Keats, Shelly, and Coleridge, which in turn were produced in part in response to Newtonian physics), modernist arguments (inherited from Eliot and Pound, arguments influenced in part by relativity and quantum theory), and postmodernist arguments (arguments informed by post-structuralist theory, e.g. Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, with affinities to arguments for the limitations of science in the philosophy, sociology, and rhetoric of science). Some of these poems reveal the discursive ideologies of scientific language—reveal, in other words, the performativity of scientific language. In doing so, these poems themselves can also be read as performative acts and, therefore, as forms of intervention rather than representation. Reading Retallack alongside science studies scholar Karen Barad, the book concludes by proposing that viewing knowledge as a form of intervention, rather than representation, offers a bridge between contemporary poetry and science.

How long is Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry?

Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry by Bryan Walpert is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.

This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry?

Resistance to Science in Contemporary American Poetry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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