Imagining the Earth (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
264
Utgivningsdatum
1996-11-01
Upplaga
2 Revised edition
Förlag
University of Georgia Press
Illustrationer
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
240 x 134 x 17 mm
Vikt
390 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780820318479

Imagining the Earth

Poetry and the Vision of Nature

av John Elder
Häftad,  Engelska, 1996-11-01
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A landmark work in the burgeoning field of literary ecology, Imagining the Earth explores the ways in which our attitudes toward nature are mirrored in and influenced by poetry. In the work of some of our most widely read poets, says John Elder, one can discern a resurgent vision of humanity in harmony with the rest of the natural order. To show us the power of poetry to identify, interpret, and celebrate a wide range of issues related to nature and our place in it, Elder uses numerous examples of works by Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, A. R. Ammons, Denise Levertov, and William Everson. Elder places these poets within a cultural tradition flowing from William Wordsworth through Alfred North Whitehead, T. S. Eliot, and Robinson Jeffers, and uses their poems to illuminate the relationships between culture and wilderness, imagination and landscape, and science and poetry. Elder's commentaries are interlinked with two remarkable essays in which he describes his ow
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"An insightful study of contemporary American nature poetry and its precursors, tracing a recurring pattern of estrangement, transformation, and reintegration that enacts a circuit of healing."--Cheryll Glotfelty, University of Nevada, Reno "Forcefully written . . . "Imagining the Earth" is a clear-headed, deeply-felt meditation on nature, poetry, and human community."--"Hollins Critic" "Justly recognized as a pioneer work of ecocriticism, Elder's "Imagining the Earth" unquestionably remains one of the most intellectually venturesome contributions to this fast-growing field."--Lawrence Buell, author of "The Environmental Imagination"

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John Elder is Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies at Middlebury College. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including "Reading the Mountains of Home" and "Nature Writing" (coedited with Robert Finch).

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