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Author Killingsworth, M. Jimmie

Title Walt Whitman and the earth : a study in ecopoetics / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Series The Iowa Whitman series
Iowa Whitman series.
Contents Things of the earth -- The fall of the Redwood tree -- Global and local, nature and earth -- The island poet and the sacred shore -- Urbanization and war -- Life review
Summary How did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experien
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index
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Subject Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history
SUBJECT Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast
Subject Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Ecology in literature
Natural history
Nature in literature
Ecologie.
Natuur.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781587295164
1587295164