LEADER 02575nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910959663903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781587295164 010 $a1587295164 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(Perlego)2912357 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467081 100 $a20040325d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalt Whitman & the earth $ea study in ecopoetics /$fby M. Jimmie Killingsworth 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (238 p.) 225 1 $aThe Iowa Whitman series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780877459033 311 08$a0877459037 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index. 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. 517 3 $aWalt Whitman and the earth 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aNature in literature 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aNature in literature. 676 $a811.3 676 $a811/.3 700 $aKillingsworth$b M. Jimmie$0549950 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910959663903321 996 $aWalt Whitman & the earth$94357572 997 $aUNINA