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A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke /

"This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke's work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. The forty-four contributors include highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers, such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hirsch, Edward (writer of foreword.), Barillas, William David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: Open House (1941)
  • 1. "Open House": Prying and Potential in an Early Poem / Brandon Rushton
  • 2. "To My Sister" / William Heyen
  • 3. "Beneath an Undivided Sky": Environmental Disorder and Human Passivity in "Interlude" / Kristin M. Distel
  • 4. "Sharper on the Ear": "The Light Comes Brighter" and the Subtle Phenomena of Place / Rod Phillips
  • 5. Smart Like Auden? "Lull" and "September 1, 1939" / Patrick Gill
  • 6. Ironic Quest in "Highway: Michigan" / Ronald Primeau
  • 7. Movement through Space, Sound, and Time in "Night Journey" / Marcel Inhoff
  • The Lost Son and Other Poems (1948)
  • 8. "Cuttings" and "Cuttings (later)": Roethke's Minute Carnivals / Michael Hinds
  • 9. All the Small, Unlovely Things: "Root Cellar" / John Rohrkemper
  • 10. Locating the Poet in "Weed Puller" / Lyn Coffin
  • 11. "Orchids": Undomesticating the Greenhouse / Brooke Horvath
  • 12. "Moss-Gathering" and Roethke's Romantic Child of Nature / Marc Malandra
  • 13. The Storm of the Mind vs. Family and Machine in "Big Wind" / Russell Brickey
  • 14. "Long Days under the Sloped Glass": Greenhouse Memories in "Transplanting" / Carrie Duke
  • 15. "Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze" and the Sleeping Beauty Tale / Laura Duncan
  • 16. Meter in "My Papa's Waltz" / William Barillas
  • 17. Syntax and Diction in "Dolor" / Luke Brekke
  • 18. Imagery and Abstraction in "Night Crow" / Sarah Kathryn Moore
  • 19. "The Lost Son": An Emotional Journey through the Landscapes of Loss / Borja Aguilo Obrador
  • 20. Respite for the Lost Son: "A Field of Light" / Jeffrey Clapp
  • Praise to the End! (1951)
  • 21. Homegrown Cosmologies: Animism and Elegy in "Where Knock Is Open Wide" / David Wojahn
  • 22. "Give Way, Ye Gates" and Roethke's Praise to the End! Sequence / Peter Balakian
  • The Waking (1953)
  • 23. "The Visitant" / Camille Paglia
  • 24. "Elegy for Jane": The Nature of Grief / David Radavich
  • 25. Dancing "The Dance": Roethke's Poetics of Appropriation / Adam Putz
  • 26. Subduing Fear in "The Waking" / Frank J. Kearful
  • Words for the Wind (1958)
  • 27. Love, Selfhood, and Sublimation in "Words for the Wind" / Andrew David King
  • 28. Moving Circles in "I Knew a Woman" / Jay Parini
  • 29. "First Meditation" and Roethke's Career / Don Bogen
  • I Am! Says the Lamb (1961)
  • 30. A Few Thousand Words on Theodore Roethke, Children's Poetry, and Three Poems Concerning Two Turtles (One of Whom Is Named Myrtle) / Joseph T. Thomas Jr.
  • The Far Field (1964)
  • 31. "The Longing": Alienation, Place, and the Desire for Home / Katharine Bubel
  • 32. Spirit, Self, and Shorebirds: The Pacific Pastoral of "Meditation at Oyster River" / Nicholas Bradley
  • 33. "Journey to the Interior," "The Longing," and the Search for a Definitive Text / Neal Bowers
  • 34. Mnetha in "The Long Waters" / John J. Mckenna
  • 35. The Ecological Vision of "The Far Field" / Bernard Quetchenbach
  • 36. Nature Mysticism in "The Rose" / Edward Morin
  • 37. "The Abyss": Finding the Next Life in This One / Trenton Hickman
  • 38. "Otto": An Insight into Roethke's Poetic Vision / Jeff Vande Zande
  • 39. "The Meadow Mouse": A Poem of Compassion / Norman Chaney
  • 40. The Zoopoetics of "The Pike" / Aaron M. Moe
  • 41. Roethke's Dark Society: Revisiting "In a Dark Time" / Walter Kalaidjian
  • 42. "I Am Not Yet Undone": Navigating the Journey from Life to Death in "Infirmity" / Laura Gill
  • 43. Symbolism and the Mystic's Way in "The Tree, the Bird" / Christopher Giroux
  • 44. "Once More, the Round": Roethke's Last Word / William Barillas.