Format:
1 Online-Ressource (232 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780226688022
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: “An Affair of Places” -- Part I. Reading Stevens, Once More -- 1. Poems (and Critics) of Our Climate -- 2. “Like Seeing Fallen Brightly Away”: A New Theory for the Emerson/Stevens Genealogy -- Part II. From Epistemological to Ecological Poetics -- 3. “There Is No World”: Deconstruction, Theoretical Biology, and the Creative Universe -- 4. “Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same” -- Part III. “Farewell to an Idea”: Some Later Long Poems -- 5. Scapes and Spheres -- 6 . “Premetaphysical Pluralism”: Dwelling in the Ordinary 138 Coda: Indirections, on the Way -- Notes -- Index
Content:
The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, and one famous blackbird who summons thirteen ways of looking. What do Stevens’s evocations of birds, and his poems more generally, tell us about the relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case. Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7208/9780226688022
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