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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Knickerbocker, Scott. Ecopoetics. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012 (DLC) 2012024396 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Scott Knickerbocker |
ISBN: | 9781613761984 1613761988 |
OCLC Number: | 830023871 |
Language Note: | English. |
Description: | 1 online resource (208 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction: 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. |
Responsibility: | Scott Knickerbocker. |
Abstract:
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.
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