Implicating Environments: The Earlier Work of Paul Carter and J.H. Prynne in the Context of Related Aspects of Later Modern Neo-Pastoral

Kniha má za cíl zkoumat aspekty současných a historických přírodních, společenských a kognitivních prostředí skrz řadu částečně komparativních čtení souvisejících hledisek filozofie, environmentálních studií, literární kritiky, poezie, kulturní historie a literárních, kulturních a prostorových teorií. Mezi diskutované autory patři Peter Ackroyd, Andrew Bowie, Paul Carter, Gilles Deleuze a Félix Guattari, Edward Dorn, Michael Hardt a Antonio Negri, David Jones, Niklas Luhmann, Andrew McMurry, Charles Olson, Camille Paglia, J. H. Prynne, Baruch Spinoza a Raymond Williams.

The book seeks to examine and explore aspects of contemporary and historical natural, social and cognitive environments through a series of partly comparative readings of pertinent aspects of philosophy, environmental studies, literary criticism, poetry, cultural history and literary, cultural and spatial theory. Writers whose work is focused upon include Peter Ackroyd, Andrew Bowie, Paul Carter, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Edward Dorn, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, David Jones, Niklas Luhmann, Andrew McMurry, Charles Olson, Camille Paglia, J.H. Prynne, Baruch Spinoza, and Raymond Williams.

Contents Chapter One: Introductory Chapter Two: Charles Olson, Edward Dorn, David Jones Chapter Three: J.H. Prynne: from ‘Resistance and Difficulty’ (1961) to Kitchen Poems (1968) Chapter Four: J.H. Prynne (2): from Day Light Songs (1968) and Into the Day (1972) to The Oval Window (1983) Chapter Five: J.H. Prynne (3): From Bands Around the Throat (1987) to Red D Gypsum (1997) Chapter Six: Paul Carter: The Road to Botany Bay (1987) and The Lie of the Land (1996)