Secular Lyric : The Modernization of the Poem in Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson / / John Michael

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480698203321
• Autore: Michael John
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8232-8147-7; 0-8232-7973-1; 0-8232-7974-X
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 811.3
• Soggetti: American poetry - 19th century - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- contents -- Introduction. The Secularization of the Lyric: The End of Art, a Revolution in Poetic Language, and the Meaning of the Modern Crowd -- chapter 1. Poe’s Posthumanism: Melancholy and the Music of Modernity -- chapter 2. Poe and the Origins of Modern Poetry: Tropes of Comparison and the Knowledge of Loss -- chapter 3. Whitman’s Poetics and Death: The Poet, Metonymy, and the Crowd -- chapter 4. Whitman and Democracy: The “Withness of the World” and the Fakes of Death -- chapter 5. The Poet as Lyric Reader -- chapter 6. Dickinson’s Dog and the Conclusion -- acknowledgments -- notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, ; Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world. Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson, in idiosyncratic but related ways, each disrupt conventional expectations while foregrounding language’s material density, thereby revealing both the potential and the limitations of art in the modern age.

Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground : An Ethnography of Climate Change in Shishmaref, Alaska / / Elizabeth Marino

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910956534403321
• Autore: Marino Liz
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fairbanks : , 2015., : University of Alaska Press
• ISBN: 9781602232679; 1602232679
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (135 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2/5097986
• Soggetti: Human beings - Effect of climate on - Alaska - Shishmaref; Ethnology - Alaska - Shishmaref; Climatic changes - Alaska - Shishmaref; Indigenous peoples - Alaska - Shishmaref - Ecology; Climat - Changements - États-Unis - Alaska (États-Unis); Ethnologie - États-Unis - Alaska (États-Unis); Homme - Effets du climat - États-Unis - Alaska (États-Unis); Umsiedlung; Kulturelle Identität; Küste; Klimaänderung; Inyupiat; Erosion; Remote-sensing maps; Ethnoecology; Human beings - Effect of climate on; Ethnology; Climatic changes; Refugies ecologiques - Alaska - Shishmaref; Justice environnementale - Alaska - Shishmaref; Inupiat (Inuits) - Alaska - Shishmaref - Relations avec l'État; Inupiat (Inuits) - Deplacement - Alaska - Shishmaref; Ethnologie - Alaska - Shishmaref; Homme - Influence du climat - Alaska - Shishmaref; Climat - Changements - Aspect anthropologique - Alaska - Shishmaref; Ethnoecology - Alaska - Shishmaref; Spatiocartes.; Remote-sensing maps.; Shishmaref (Alaska) Remote-sensing maps; Alaska Shishmaref; Shishmaref (Alaska) Conditions environnementales; Shishmaref (Alaska) Maps
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: It's the end of the world, and Shishmaref is everywhere -- Unnatural natural disasters -- Flooding and erosion in Shishmaref: the anatomy of a climate change disaster -- Seal oil lamps amd pre-fab housing: a history of colonialism in Shishmaref -- Finding a way forward: trust, distrust, and Alaska native relocation planning in the twenty-first century -- Tenacity of home -- Ethics of climate change.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fierce Climate, Sacred Ground is an ethnographic account of the impacts of climate change in Shishmaref, Alaska. In this small Iupiaq community, flooding and erosion are forcing community members to consider relocation as the only possible solution for long-term safety. However, a tangled web of policy obstacles, lack of funding, and organizational challenges leaves the community without a clear way forward, creating serious questions of how to maintain cultural identity under the new climate regime. Elizabeth Marino analyzes this unique and grounded example of a warming world as a confluence of political injustice, histories of colonialism, global climate change, and contemporary development decisions. The book merges theoretical insights from disaster studies, political analysis, and passages from field notes into an eminently readable text for a wide audience. This is an ethnography of climate change; a glimpse into the lived experiences of a global phenomenon.