02892nam 22006853u 450 991045220090332120210108135609.01-58729-516-4(CKB)1000000000467081(EBL)843190(OCoLC)82703364(SSID)ssj0000268818(PQKBManifestationID)11954600(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268818(PQKBWorkID)10243281(PQKB)11019747(MiAaPQ)EBC843190(EXLCZ)99100000000046708120131216d2009|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrWalt Whitman and the Earth[electronic resource] A Study of EcopoeticsIowa City University of Iowa Press20091 online resource (238 p.)Iowa Whitman SeriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-87745-903-7 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; IndexHow 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 experienIowa Whitman SeriesEcology in literatureNature in literatureWhitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural historyEcology in literatureNature in literatureAmerican LiteratureHILCCEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCElectronic books.Ecology in literature.Nature in literature.Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.Ecology in literatureNature in literatureAmerican LiteratureEnglishLanguages & Literatures811.3811/.3Killingsworth M. Jimmie549950AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910452200903321Walt Whitman and the Earth2448383UNINA