Ecocriticism and the poiesis of form : holding on to proteus / Aaron M. Moe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moe, Aaron M., 1976- author.

Series:

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment

Routledge studies in world literatures and the environment.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Ecology in literature.

Semiotics and literature.

Physical Description:

xxi, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the reaches of Deep Time, and it explores the kinship between the hazy, liminal moment when Sound becomes Syllable and the hazy, liminal moment when the sage energy of the Atom made a leap toward the gaze of the first cell.

Contents:

PART I. Origins; or, 'the bud of the bud'.

The 'turn / ing;edge, of / life': an introduction

Protean energy; or , the squeeze & the turn in Moby-Dick

Biosemiotics and Jody Gladding's Translations from Bark Beetle

Vibrational poiesis of insects and arachnids

'Electrons / swoon in the sword fern' : plants, seeds, and Brenda Hillman's Thoreauvian attentiveness

PART II. Energy Unleashed. The 'worship of kinesis' in the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

Machines, protean mimicry, and the organic energy of writing technologies

'plant Magic dust': a look at the 'making obsession'

Holding on

The squeeze of trauma: 'protean being' & 500 years of pressure

PART III. E=mc², the fractal cosmos, and the poem. Mathematics and the protean sublime

Protean energy as hyperobject: language and the cosmos

Gaia, the atom, and the poem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-251) and index.

ISBN:

0367173751

9780367173753

OCLC:

1066184032