Greening the lyre : environmental poetics and ethics / David W. Gilcrest.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilcrest, David W., 1962-

Series:

Environmental Arts and Humanities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental ethics.

Ethics in literature.

Ecology in literature.

Nature conservation in literature.

Environmental policy in literature.

Philosophy of nature in literature.

Environmental protection in literature.

Conservation of natural resources in literature.

Nature in literature.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (108 p.)

Place of Publication:

Reno, Nevada ; Las Vegas, [Nevada] : University of Nevada Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work covers important and neglected ground-environmental language theory. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? He addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and considers such poets as Frost, Kunitz, Heaney, Ammons, Cardenal, and Rich.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Toward a Rhetoric of Ecological Poetics; Chapter 2 - Green Speech: The Trope of Speaking Nature; Chapter 3 - Ethos and Environmental Ethics; Chapter 4 - Pragmatic Environmental Poetics; Chapter 5 - Skeptical Environmental Poetics; Afterword - Politics and Environmental Poetics; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-164) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780874175547

0874175542

OCLC:

50733508