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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452200903321

Autore

Killingsworth M. Jimmie

Titolo

Walt Whitman and the Earth [[electronic resource] ] : A Study of Ecopoetics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2009

ISBN

1-58729-516-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Collana

Iowa Whitman Series

Disciplina

811.3

811/.3

Soggetti

Ecology in literature

Nature in literature

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

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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