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E.E. Cummings : Poetry and Ecology.
By employing the modernist devices of fragmentation, recombination, and accentuated blank space, E.E. Cummings engages singularly with being on earth. This ecological achievement was largely ignored by the New Critics, and the subsequent semiotic spirit which has been holding that the sign hardly ha...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2012.
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| Colección: | Nature, culture and literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; 1 Cummings's poetic status and his eco-logos; 1. "What has happened to nature poetry?"; 2. Cummings: ecology or environment?; 3. Intersections, cautions, lacunae: an ecocritical overview ofCummings's critical reception; 2 The rise of Cummings's ecological status; 1. Norman Friedman's 'Post Script'; 2. Further voices; 3. Cummings and Taoism; 3 The scope of Cummings's poetic ecology; 1. The varieties of Cummings's eco-logos; 1.1. Sonnets and lyricism; 1.2. Love and erotic poems; 1.3. Satire.
- 1.4. Visual-verbal poems (poempictures)4 The manner and achievement of Cummings'spoetic ecology; 1. Selected Taoist qualities of Cummings's poetry; 1.1. Smallness; 1.2. Fluidity; 1.3. Co-incidence (serendipity/ simultaneity/ co-being); 1.4. 'Threeness'; 2. Two ecological masterpieces: the leaf and hummingbirdpoems; 5 A modernist reconfiguration? Cummings, Eliot, Pound, and the modernist poetic eco-logos; 1. Mainstream modernist ambivalence towards naturalexistence: the ambiguous end of the eco-logos.
- 2. 'Desarts of vast eternity': Eliot's searing wastelands assymbols of the ambivalent eco-logos3. Eliot's affirmative eco-logos: his 'threeness'; 4. Pound's paideuma: notes on his eco-logos; 5. 'Threeness' as a key value of the modernist poeticeco-logos: Cummings, Eliot, Pound; Bibliography; Index.