LEADER 02858nam 22006733u 450 001 9910777509703321 005 20210108135609.0 010 $a1-58729-516-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467081 035 $a(EBL)843190 035 $a(OCoLC)82703364 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268818 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11954600 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268818 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243281 035 $a(PQKB)11019747 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843190 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467081 100 $a20131216d2009|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman and the Earth$b[electronic resource] $eA Study of Ecopoetics 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 225 1 $aIowa Whitman Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87745-903-7 327 $aContents; 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; Index 330 $aHow did Whitman use language to figure out his relationship to the earth, and how can we interpret his language to reconstruct the interplay between the poet and his sociopolitical and environmental world? In this first book-length study of Whitman's poetry from an ecocritical perspective, Jimmie Killingsworth takes ecocriticism one step further into ecopoetics to reconsider both Whitman's language in light of an ecological understanding of the world and the world through a close study of Whitman's language. Killingsworth contends that Whitman's poetry embodies the kinds of conflicted experien 410 0$aIowa Whitman Series 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aWhitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aAmerican Literature$2HILCC 606 $aEnglish$2HILCC 606 $aLanguages & Literatures$2HILCC 615 4$aEcology in literature. 615 4$aNature in literature. 615 4$aWhitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history. 615 0$aEcology in literature 615 0$aNature in literature 615 7$aAmerican Literature 615 7$aEnglish 615 7$aLanguages & Literatures 676 $a811.3 676 $a811/.3 700 $aKillingsworth$b M. Jimmie$0549950 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777509703321 996 $aWalt Whitman and the Earth$93678149 997 $aUNINA