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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459317403321

Autore

Handley George B. <1964->

Titolo

New world poetics [[electronic resource] ] : nature and the adamic imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott / / George B. Handley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ga., : University of Georgia Press, c2007

ISBN

1-282-72618-8

9786612726187

0-8203-3671-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Disciplina

811.009/36

Soggetti

American poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Chilean poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Ecocriticism

Philosophy of nature in literature

Ecology in literature

Nature in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 413-427) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam -- A New World poetics -- reading Whitman in the New World -- Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass -- Natural history as autobiography -- Hemispheric history as natural history -- The muse of (natural) history -- Impressionism in the New World -- Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.