Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds - Wolfe, Cary
Marktplatzangebote
Gebraucht bestellen
Ein Angebot für € 20,11 €
  • Broschiertes Buch

"The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, robins, nightingales, jays, owls, peacocks, the 'bird with the coppery, keen claws,' a 'parakeet of parakeets,' a 'widow's bird,' 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 distance between human and non-human? In what ways can we read him as an ecological poet, and how would reading him this way change our idea of ecopoetics? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe reconceptualizes…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
"The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, robins, nightingales, jays, owls, peacocks, the 'bird with the coppery, keen claws,' a 'parakeet of parakeets,' a 'widow's bird,' 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 distance between human and non-human? In what ways can we read him as an ecological poet, and how would reading him this way change our idea of ecopoetics? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe reconceptualizes ecopoetics through a poet not often associated with the terms 'ecology' and 'environment'"
Autorenporträt
Cary Wolfe is the Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English and founding director of 3CT: Center for Critical and Cultural Theory at Rice University. He is the author of five books, most recently, Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame.