LEADER 03841nam 2200637 450 001 9910789325503321 005 20230801232605.0 010 $a1-61376-198-8 035 $a(CKB)3400000000127724 035 $a(MH)013364103-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000822754 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11437082 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000822754 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10759627 035 $a(PQKB)10010559 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4533122 035 $a(OCoLC)830023871 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19013 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4533122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11252878 035 $a(EXLCZ)993400000000127724 100 $a20160913h20122012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEcopoetics $ethe language of nature, the nature of language /$fScott Knickerbocker 210 1$aAmherst, [Massachusetts] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cUniversity of Massachusetts Press,$d2012. 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (x, 203 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-55849-954-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $a"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. 330 $aEcopoetics 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. 330 $aRather 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. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature conservation in literature 606 $aEcocriticism 606 $aPhilosophy of nature in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature conservation in literature. 615 0$aEcocriticism. 615 0$aPhilosophy of nature in literature. 676 $a811/.50936 700 $aKnickerbocker$b Scott$01516038 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789325503321 996 $aEcopoetics$93752230 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress