Ecopoetics : the language of nature, the nature of language /

"Ecocritics and other literary scholars interested in the environment have tended to examine writings that pertain directly to nature and to focus on subject matter more than expression. In this book, Scott Knickerbocker argues that it is time for the next step in ecocriticism: scholars need to...

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Main Author: Knickerbocker, Scott
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Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
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505 0 |a Introduction: The language of nature, the nature of language -- Wallace Stevens, eco-aesthete -- Elizabeth Bishop's strange reality -- Richard Wilbur's natural artifice -- Sylvia Plath's physical words -- Conclusion: Organic formalism and contemporary poetry. 
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