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A place for humility : Whitman, Dickinson, and the natural world /
"Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are widely acknowledged as two of America's foremost nature poets, primarily due to their explorations of natural phenomena as evocative symbols for cultural developments, individual experiences, and poetry itself. Yet for all their metaphorical suggestive...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University Of Iowa Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Iowa Whitman series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Noticing Small Worlds
- 1. "Turns unperceived beneath
- our Feet": Dickinson's Frequent Acts of Noticing Small Nature
- 2. "What is the Grass?": Whitman's Originating Moment of Noticing Small Nature
- Part II: Describing Local Lands
- 3. "The Acre gives them
- Place
- / They
- Him
- Attention": Dickinson's Sparse Description
- 4. "With angry moans the fierce old mother incessantly moaning": Whitman's Narrative Description
- Part III: Narrating the Regions
- 5. "A Field of Stubble, lying sere": Dickinson's Reluctant New England Narratives
- 6. "Clearing the ground for broad humanity": Whitman's Affirmative Regional Narratives
- Part IV: Envisioning the Earth
- 7. "The Earth and I and One": Dickinson's Vision of Global Dwelling
- 8. "What is this earth to our affections?": Whitman's Vision of Cosmic Companionship
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.