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Iowa Whitman Ser.: Walt Whitman and the Earth : A Study of Ecopoetics by M. Jimmie Killingsworth (2005, Perfect)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press
ISBN-101587294516
ISBN-139781587294518
eBay Product ID (ePID)50941072
Product Key Features
Number of Pages238 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameWalt Whitman and the Earth : a Study of Ecopoetics
SubjectSubjects & Themes / Nature, Poetry, American / General
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
AuthorM. Jimmie Killingsworth
SeriesIowa Whitman Ser.
FormatPerfect
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Reviews"This first book-length ecocritical analysis of Whitman's poetry is noteworthy for two reasons: few scholars in the field of ecocriticism have concentrated on the work of a single author, and few have focused on poetry rather than nonfiction prose. . . . Summing up: Essential. All collections; all levels."---Choice, "Jimmie Killingsworth engages his critical precursors in a spirit that is civil in the best sense: showing wide awareness of Whitman studies without falling into pedantry, generously acknowledging debts to colleagues while declining to bind himself too tightly to any one of them."---Lawrence Buell, author of The Environmental Imagination and Writing for an Endangered World
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal811.3
Edition DescriptionAnnotated edition
SynopsisHow 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 experience and language that continually crop up in the discourse of political ecology and that an ecopoetic perspective can explicate Whitman's feelings about his aging body, his war-torn nation, and the increasing stress on the American environment both inside and outside the urban world. He begins with a close reading of This Compost, Whitman's greatest contribution to the literature of ecology, from the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. He then explores personification and nature as object, as resource, and as spirit and examines manifest destiny and the globalizing impulse behind Leaves of Grass, then moves the other way, toward Whitman's regional, even local appeal---demonstrating that he remained an island poet even as he became America's first urban poet. After considering Whitman as an urbanizing poet, he shows how, in his final writings, Whitman tried to renew his earlier connection to nature. Walt Whitman and the Earth reveals Whitman as a powerfully creative experimental poet and a representative figure in American culture whose struggles and impulses previewed our lives today.
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