The wild that attracts us : new critical essays on Robinson Jeffers / edited by ShaunAnne Tangney.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "The wild that attracts us"-in the World and on the Page / ShaunAnne Tangney; 1: Robinson Jeffers and the Contemplation of Consciousness / Christopher Damien; 2: The Neurasthenic Logic of Robinson Jeffers's Antiurbanism / J. Bradford Campbell; 3: Constructed Witness: The Drama of Presence in Jeffers's Lyric Voice / Tim Hunt; 4: Jeffers, Pessimism, and Time / Robert Zaller; 5: Knocking Our Heads to Pieces against the Night: Going Cosmic with Robinson Jeffers / Anthony Lioi.

6: "The mould to break away from": An Ecofeminist Reading of "Roan Stallion" / ShaunAnne Tangney7: Praxis, Gnosis, Poiesis: Inhabitation as Performative Myth in Thoreau and Jeffers / Bryon Williams; 8: Jeffers's 1907 Hike in the San Bernardino Mountains: A Closer Look / Robert Kafka; 9: The Warm Reception of Robinson Jeffers's Poetry in Cold War Czechoslovakia / Petr Kopecký; 10: Robinson Jeffers, Translation, and the Return of Narrative / David J. Rothman; Contributors; Index; Back Cover.

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 forma.

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