1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464792503321

Autore

Knickerbocker Scott

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-198-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 203 p. )

Disciplina

811/.50936

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Nature conservation in literature

Ecocriticism

Philosophy of 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 explore the figurative and aural capacity of language to evoke the natural world in powerful ways.

Ecopoetics probes the complex relationship between artifice and the natural world in the work of modern American poets - in particular Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, Richard Wilbur, and Sylvia Plath. These poets relate to nature as a deep wellspring of meaning, although they all avoid using language the way most nature writers do, merely to reflect or refer directly to the world. Each of these poets, in his or her own distinct way, employs instead what Knickerbocker terms sensuous



poesis, the process of rematerializing language through sound effects and other formal devices as a sophisticated response to nonhuman nature.

Rather than attempt to erase the artifice of their own poems, to make them seem more natural and thus supposedly closer to nature, the poets in this book unapologetically embrace artifice - not for its own sake but in order to perform and enact the natural world. Indeed, for them, artifice is natural. In examining their work, Knickerbocker charts a new direction for ecocriticism."--pub. desc.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387813503316

Autore

Peacham Henry <1576?-1643?>

Titolo

The compleat gentleman [[electronic resource] ] : Fashioning him absolute, in the most necessarie and commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie, that may be required in a noble gentleman. Whereunto is annexed a description of the order of a maine battaile, or pitched field, eight seuerall wayes: as also certaine necessarie instructions concerning the art of fishing, with other additions. By Henry Peacham, Master of Arts, sometime of Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed [by G. Wood] for Francis Constable, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard, at the signe of the Crane, 1627

Edizione

[[The second impression much inlarged].]

Descrizione fisica

[14], 124, 129-227, [2], 300-301, [5] p. : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Education

Courtesy

Heraldry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With an additional title page, engraved, which bears the edition statement. It is signed "Fr. Delaram. sculp. Anno 1626". Variant 1: engraved title imprint gives Constable's address as "ye Greene man in Leaden hall street right over Billeter lane"; the foot of the right pedestal has "sculp. Anno 1625".

Printer's name from STC.

Variant 2: with an additional dedication to the Duke of Buckingham, with his coat of arms.



Identified as STC 19502a on UMI microfilm reel 661.

Reproduction of the originals in the Folger Shakespeare Library and Minnesota University Library.

Appears at reel 661 (Folger Shakespeare Library copy) and at reel 1355 (Minnesota University Library copy).

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0173

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910703448803321

Titolo

Climate change impacts in the United States, highlights : U.S. national climate assessment / / U.S. Global Change Research Program

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Global Change Research Program, , 2014

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Government Printing Office

Edizione

[Revised October 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 137 pages) : illustrations, maps

Soggetti

Climatic changes - United States

Climatic changes

Greenhouse gases - Risk assessment

Climatic changes - Risk assessment

Global environmental change

Global warming

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed June 14, 2016).

"First published May 2014."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-137).