LEADER 03467nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910811192003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-5491-7 010 $a0-8232-6101-8 010 $a0-8232-5492-5 010 $a0-8232-5490-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823254910 035 $a(CKB)2560000000101754 035 $a(EBL)1220019 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000873045 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11455381 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000873045 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10883665 035 $a(PQKB)11326703 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239824 035 $a(OCoLC)855468795 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27566 035 $a(DE-B1597)555165 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823254910 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1220019 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239824 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10700263 035 $a(OCoLC)854973522 035 $a(OCoLC)883409977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703350 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703350 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL818136 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000101754 100 $a20130409d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aInventing the language to tell it $eRobinson Jeffers and the biology of consciousness /$fGeorge Hart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5489-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Robinson Jeffers's sacramental poetics -- Rock, bark, and blood: sacramental poetics and West Coast nature poetry -- The strain in the skull: biopoetics and the biology of consciousness -- The whole mind: brains, biology, and bioregion in the middle period -- To keep one's own integrity: the inhumanist and the crisis of holism -- The wound in the brain: the discoveries of the later poetry -- Conclusion: the Jeffers influence and the middle generation. 330 $aFrom 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers?s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers?s poetic experiment is an important contribution to American literary history?no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough engagement with a crucial scientific problem. Jeffers invented a sacramental poetics that accommodates a modern scientific account of consciousness, thereby integrating an essentially religious sensibility with science in order to discover the sacramentality of natural process and reveal a divine cosmos.There is no other study of Jeffers or sacramental nature poetry like this one. It proposes that Jeffers?s sacramentalism emerged out of his scientifically informed understanding of material nature. Drawing on ecocriticism, religious studies, and neuroscience, Inventing the Languageto Tell It shows how Jeffers produced the most compelling sacramental nature poetry of the twentieth century. 676 $a811/.52 700 $aHart$b George Leslie$01595576 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811192003321 996 $aInventing the language to tell it$94115092 997 $aUNINA