Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
Series |
The Iowa Whitman series |
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Iowa Whitman series.
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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 |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history
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SUBJECT |
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 fast |
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Ecology in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Ecology in literature
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Natural history
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Nature in literature
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Ecologie.
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Natuur.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781587295164 |
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1587295164 |
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