02575nam 2200601Ia 450 991095966390332120200520144314.097815872951641587295164(CKB)1000000000467081(EBL)843190(OCoLC)82703364(SSID)ssj0000268818(PQKBManifestationID)11954600(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268818(PQKBWorkID)10243281(PQKB)11019747(MiAaPQ)EBC843190(Perlego)2912357(EXLCZ)99100000000046708120040325d2004 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWalt Whitman & the earth a study in ecopoetics /by M. Jimmie Killingsworth1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Pressc20041 online resource (238 p.)The Iowa Whitman seriesDescription based upon print version of record.9780877459033 0877459037 Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.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 series.Walt Whitman and the earthEcology in literatureNature in literatureEcology in literature.Nature in literature.811.3811/.3Killingsworth M. Jimmie549950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910959663903321Walt Whitman & the earth4357572UNINA