Ecopoetics : the language of nature, the nature of language

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
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
Subjects:
Poetics > History > 20th century.
Ecology in literature.
Philosophy of nature in literature.
Ecocriticism.
Nature conservation in literature.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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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