Publication

2004 - University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, Iowa

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100877459037
  • ISBN-139780877459033
  • Goodreads458289
  • LibraryThing2712737
  • Library of Congress Control Number2004047990
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC811/.3
  • LCCPS3242.N2 K57 2004

Description

"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."--Jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • The Iowa Whitman series

Other Editions

  • Walt Whitman and the earth: a study in ecopoeticsUniversity of Iowa Press2004-01-01

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