Walt Whitman and the earth
Subtitle: a study in ecopoetics
By: by M. Jimmie Killingsworth.
Series: The Iowa Whitman series
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Knowledge -- Natural history; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-214) and index.