Walt Whitman & the earth : a study in ecopoetics / by M. Jimmie Killingsworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Killingsworth, M. Jimmie.

Series:

Iowa Whitman series.

The Iowa Whitman series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology in literature.

Nature in literature.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892--Knowledge--Natural history.

Whitman, Walt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Walt Whitman and the earth

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Whitman?; 1. Things of the Earth; 2. The Fall of the Redwood Tree; 3. Global and Local, Nature and Earth; 4. The Island Poet and the Sacred Shore; 5. Urbanization and War; 6. Life Review; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.

ISBN:

9781587295164

1587295164

OCLC:

82703364