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Unnatural Ecopoetics - Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
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Unnatural Ecopoetics - Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry (Hardcover)
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What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue
that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in
the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments
are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary
spaces can be both wild and urban, or even cultural. Yet, few of
the works produced to date have addressed the pronounced influence
the author of a text has on a literary environment. Despite
exciting work on materiality and culture in conceptions of
environments, critics have not yet fully examined the contributions
of poetry’s language, form, and self-awareness in rethinking what
constitutes an environment. By approaching environments in a new
way, Nolan closes this gap and recognizes how contemporary poets
employ self-reflexive commentary and formal experimentation in
order to create new natural/cultural environments on the page. She
proposes a radical new direction for ecopoetics and deploys it in
relation to four major American poets. Working from literal to
textual spaces through the contemporary poetry of A.R. Ammons’s
Garbage, Lyn Hejinian’s My Life, Susan Howe’s The Midnight, and
Kenneth Goldsmith’s Seven American Deaths and Disasters, the book
presents applications of unnatural ecopoetics in poetic
environments, ones that do not engage with traditional ideas of
nature and would otherwise remain outside the scope of ecocritical
and ecopoetic studies. Â Nolan proposes a new practical
approach for reading poetic language. Ecocriticism is a very fluid
and evolving discipline, and Nolan’s pioneering new book pushes
the boundaries of second-wave ecopoetics—the fundamental issue
being what is nature/natural, and how does poetic language,
particularly self-conscious contemporary poetic agency, contribute
to and complicate that question.
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Imprint: |
University of Nevada Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2017 |
Authors: |
Sarah Nolan
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Foreword by: |
Scott Slovic
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-943859-27-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-943859-27-2 |
Barcode: |
9781943859276 |
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