Lee Zimmerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Zimmerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Zimmerman |
| SIGNATURE | ZIMMERMAN L |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0920-8505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change
The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that …
Against Depression
If I said you had a beautiful body Would you hold it against me?In 1988, American novelist William Styron, prompted by the "mystifi ed" (32) and (as he saw it) shame-faced response to Primo Levi's apparent suicide, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times."The argument I put forth," he tells us in Darkness Visible (1990), a memoir of his own depression, "was fairly straightforward: the pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those w…
The Weirdest Scale on Earth
At the heart of "In the Waiting Room"—the first poem in Elizabeth Bishop's last book—lies the recollection of a terrifying childhood experience: the sensation of falling off the round, turning world into cold, blue-black space. (160)1 This experience has been characterized by many readers, following Helen Vendler, as "vertigo" (1977, 37), and though Vendler herself construes vertigo as "metaphysical doubt," I would like to take a harder look at w…
Frankenstein, Invisibility, and Nameless Dread
Early in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831), Victor Frankenstein tells Captain Walton: "No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence" (43). But is what he says true? Is Victor's claim borne out by the details of his narrative? I would like to propose that it is not, that it is idealized and defensive, and that just as the monster suffers from parentlessne…
Against Vanishing
Against Vanishing: Winnicott and the Modern Poetry of Nothing Lee Zimmerman How often our major voices boldly assert and embrace their own nothingness. At the center of what has been called the “most celebrated moment of transcendence in American letters” (Hughes, 157), Emerson tells us “all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all” (6). Less transcendentally, Yeats picks up the theme: “Talk to me of original…
Intricate and Simple Things
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change
The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that …
Against Depression
If I said you had a beautiful body Would you hold it against me?In 1988, American novelist William Styron, prompted by the "mystifi ed" (32) and (as he saw it) shame-faced response to Primo Levi's apparent suicide, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times."The argument I put forth," he tells us in Darkness Visible (1990), a memoir of his own depression, "was fairly straightforward: the pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those w…
Intricate and Simple Things
Against Vanishing
Against Vanishing: Winnicott and the Modern Poetry of Nothing Lee Zimmerman How often our major voices boldly assert and embrace their own nothingness. At the center of what has been called the “most celebrated moment of transcendence in American letters” (Hughes, 157), Emerson tells us “all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all” (6). Less transcendentally, Yeats picks up the theme: “Talk to me of original…
Frankenstein, Invisibility, and Nameless Dread
Early in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831), Victor Frankenstein tells Captain Walton: "No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence" (43). But is what he says true? Is Victor's claim borne out by the details of his narrative? I would like to propose that it is not, that it is idealized and defensive, and that just as the monster suffers from parentlessne…
The Weirdest Scale on Earth
At the heart of "In the Waiting Room"—the first poem in Elizabeth Bishop's last book—lies the recollection of a terrifying childhood experience: the sensation of falling off the round, turning world into cold, blue-black space. (160)1 This experience has been characterized by many readers, following Helen Vendler, as "vertigo" (1977, 37), and though Vendler herself construes vertigo as "metaphysical doubt," I would like to take a harder look at w…
Against Depression
If I said you had a beautiful body Would you hold it against me?In 1988, American novelist William Styron, prompted by the "mystifi ed" (32) and (as he saw it) shame-faced response to Primo Levi's apparent suicide, wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times."The argument I put forth," he tells us in Darkness Visible (1990), a memoir of his own depression, "was fairly straightforward: the pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those w…
Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change
The more the global north has learned about the existential threat of climate change, the faster it has emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In Trauma and the Discourse of Climate Change, Lee Zimmerman thinks about why this is by examining how "climate change" has been discursively constructed, tracing how the ways we talk and write about climate change have worked to normalize a generalized, bipartisan denialism more profound than that …
Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · HERO (2 works) · History (2 works) · Nothing (2 works)