Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds, (Hardcover)

Ecological Poetics; Or, Wallace Stevens's Birds, (Hardcover)

(No ratings yet)

Key item features

The poems of Wallace Stevens teem with birds: grackles, warblers, doves, swans, nightingales, owls, peacocks, 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 relationship between human and nonhuman? In this book, the noted theorist of posthumanism Cary Wolfe argues for a philosophical and theoretical reinvention of ecological poetics, using Stevens as a test case.

Stevens, Wolfe argues, is an ecological poet in the sense that his places, worlds, and environments are co-created by the life forms that inhabit them. Wolfe argues for a “nonrepresentational” conception of ecopoetics, showing how Stevens’s poems reward study alongside theories of system, environment, and observation derived from a multitude of sources, from Ralph Waldo Emerson and Niklas Luhmann to Jacques Derrida and Stuart Kauffman. Ecological Poetics is an ambitious interdisciplinary undertaking involving literary criticism, contemporary philosophy, and theoretical biology.
Current price is $153.29
Price when purchased online
  • Free shipping
  • Free 30-day returns
$153.29
$55.40

How do you want your item?

How do you want your item?
Columbus, 43215
Arrives between May 13 - May 20
|
Sold and shipped by Rarewaves.com
4.25008471704507 stars out of 5, based on 2951 seller reviews(4.3)
Report an issue with this seller
Free 30-day returns

About this item

Product details

Specifications

Warranty

Customer ratings & reviews

0 ratings|0 reviews
This item does not have any reviews yet