Lean down your ear upon the earth, and listen
Subtitle: Thomas Wolfe's greener modernism
By: Robert Taylor Ensign.
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Wolfe, Thomas, 1900-1938 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.; Modernism (Literature) -- United States.; Ecology in literature.; Nature in literature.
Description: "In this ecocritical study of Thomas Wolfe's body of fiction, Robert Taylor Ensign explores how the celebrated writer's storytelling is founded on his dramatization - and apprehension - of the natural world's integral presence in human lives. According to Ensign, Wolfe, as ecoconscious as any American nature writer, conveyed a more emotionally vital natural world than did his contemporaries of the 1920s and 1930s.

Ensign traces the engagement of Wolfe's characters with the nonhuman world to roots in a romantic tradition of American literature, as exemplified by Nathaniel Hawthorne."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-147) and index.
Table of contents: title: Earth-based texts : writing nature his way; title: The environmental relationship : ecological and personal; title: Nature : touchstone, source, and kin; title: Invoking nature's presence : methods and effects; title: Look homeward, angel : introduction to a greener modernism; title: The miraculous spring : passion and nature redeem the wasteland.